HB 0125 2004
1	CHAMBER ACTION
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6	The Committee on Public Safety & Crime Prevention recommends the
7	following:
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9	Committee Substitute
10	Remove the entire bill and insert:
11	A bill to be entitled
12	An act relating to accessories to a crime; providing a
13	popular name; amending s. 777.03, F.S.; limiting the
14	provision that exempts certain members of an offender's
15	family from being charged with the offense of acting as an
16	accessory after the fact to circumstances involving third
17	degree felony offenses; providing an effective date.
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19	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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21	Section 1. This act may be cited as the "Jason A. Gucwa
22	Act."
23	Section 2. Subsection (1) of section 777.03, Florida
24	Statutes, is amended to read:
25	777.03 Accessory after the fact.--
26	(1)(a) Any person not standing in the relation of husband
27	or wife, parent or grandparent, child or grandchild, brother or
28	sister, by consanguinity or affinity to the offender, who
29	maintains or assists the principal or accessory before the fact,
30	or gives the offender any other aid, knowing that the offender
31	had committed a crime and such crime was a third degree felony,
32	or had been an accessory thereto before the fact, with the
33	intent that the offender avoids or escapes detection, arrest,
34	trial,or punishment, is an accessory after the fact.
35	(b) Any person, regardless of the relation to the
36	offender,who maintains or assists the principal or accessory
37	before the fact, or gives the offender any other aid, knowing
38	that the offender had committed the offense of child abuse,
39	neglect of a child, aggravated child abuse, aggravated
40	manslaughter of a child under 18 years of age, or murder of a
41	child under 18 years of age, or had been anaccessory thereto
42	before the fact, with the intent that the offender avoids or
43	escapes detection, arrest, trial, or punishment, is an accessory
44	after the fact unless the court finds that the person is a
45	victim of domestic violence.
46	(c) Any person who maintains or assists the principal or
47	accessory before the fact, or gives the offender any other aid,
48	knowing that the offender had committed a crime and such crime
49	was a first or second degree felony, or had been an accessory
50	thereto before the fact, with the intent that the offender
51	avoids or escapes detection, arrest, trial, or punishment, is an
52	accessory after the fact.
53	Section 3. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.