HB 0557 2003
1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to assault or battery on specified
3	officials; amending s. 784.081, F.S.; providing enhanced
4	penalties for the offense of assault, battery, aggravated
5	assault, or aggravated battery if the offense is committed
6	upon certain persons officiating at an interscholastic
7	activity; providing an effective date.
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9	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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11	Section 1. Section 784.081, Florida Statutes, is amended
12	to read:
13	784.081 Assault or battery on specified officials or
14	employees; reclassification of offenses.--Whenever a person is
15	charged with committing an assault or aggravated assault or a
16	battery or aggravated battery upon any elected official or
17	employee of: a school district; a private school; the Florida
18	School for the Deaf and the Blind; a university developmental
19	research school; a state university or any other entity of the
20	state system of public education, as defined in s. 1000.04; an
21	interscholastic sports official as defined in s.
22	440.02(15)(d)11.;an employee or protective investigator of the
23	Department of Children and Family Services; or an employee of a
24	lead community-based provider and its direct service contract
25	providers, when the person committing the offense knows or has
26	reason to know the identity or position or employment of the
27	victim, the offense for which the person is charged shall be
28	reclassified as follows:
29	(1) In the case of aggravated battery, from a felony of
30	the second degree to a felony of the first degree.
31	(2) In the case of aggravated assault, from a felony of
32	the third degree to a felony of the second degree.
33	(3) In the case of battery, from a misdemeanor of the
34	first degree to a felony of the third degree.
35	(4) In the case of assault, from a misdemeanor of the
36	second degree to a misdemeanor of the first degree.
37	Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2003.