HB 0017A 2003
1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to Indian reservations; amending s.
3	285.16, F.S.; specifying that the state's jurisdiction
4	over criminal offenses committed within Indian
5	reservations does not apply to Indian reservations of the
6	Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida; providing an
7	exception for such reservations with respect to the
8	applicability of civil and criminal laws of the state;
9	providing for construction of the act in pari materia with
10	laws enacted during the 2003 Regular Session of the
11	Legislature; providing an effective date.
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13	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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15	Section 1. Section 285.16, Florida Statutes, is amended to
16	read:
17	285.16 Civil and criminal jurisdiction; Indian
18	reservation; exception.--
19	(1) The State of Florida hereby assumes jurisdiction over
20	criminal offenses committed by or against Indians or other
21	persons within Indian reservations and over civil causes of
22	actions between Indians or other persons or to which Indians or
23	other persons are parties rising within Indian reservations.
24	(2) The civil and criminal laws of Florida shall obtain on
25	all Indian reservations in this state and shall be enforced in
26	the same manner as elsewhere throughout the state.
27	(3) Subsections (1) and (2) of this section do not apply
28	to Indian reservations of the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of
29	Florida.
30	Section 2. If any law amended by this act was also amended
31	by a law enacted at the 2003 Regular Session of the Legislature,
32	such laws shall be construed as if they had been enacted at the
33	same session of the Legislature, and full effect shall be given
34	to each if possible.
35	Section 3. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.