Senate Bill sb2654

    Florida Senate - 2004                                  SB 2654

    By Senator Jones





    13-1960-04

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the carrying of concealed

  3         weapons; amending s. 790.06, F.S.; prohibiting

  4         the carrying of a concealed weapon or firearm

  5         into a district legislative office or within

  6         the Capitol Complex; providing an exemption

  7         from such prohibition for members of the

  8         Legislature and Cabinet officers; providing a

  9         penalty; providing an effective date.

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11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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13         Section 1.  Subsection (12) of section 790.06, Florida

14  Statutes, is amended to read:

15         790.06  License to carry concealed weapon or firearm.--

16         (12)  No license issued pursuant to this section shall

17  authorize any person to carry a concealed weapon or firearm

18  into any place of nuisance as defined in s. 823.05; any

19  police, sheriff, or highway patrol station; any detention

20  facility, prison, or jail; any courthouse; any courtroom,

21  except that nothing in this section would preclude a judge

22  from carrying a concealed weapon or determining who will carry

23  a concealed weapon in his or her courtroom; any polling place;

24  any meeting of the governing body of a county, public school

25  district, municipality, or special district; any meeting of

26  the Legislature or a committee thereof; any district office of

27  a member of the Legislature; any area of the Capitol Complex

28  as defined in s. 281.01, except that nothing in this section

29  would preclude a member of the Legislature or a Cabinet

30  officer from carrying a concealed weapon; any school, college,

31  or professional athletic event not related to firearms; any

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    Florida Senate - 2004                                  SB 2654
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 1  school administration building; any portion of an

 2  establishment licensed to dispense alcoholic beverages for

 3  consumption on the premises, which portion of the

 4  establishment is primarily devoted to such purpose; any

 5  elementary or secondary school facility; any area technical

 6  center; any college or university facility unless the licensee

 7  is a registered student, employee, or faculty member of such

 8  college or university and the weapon is a stun gun or

 9  nonlethal electric weapon or device designed solely for

10  defensive purposes and the weapon does not fire a dart or

11  projectile; inside the passenger terminal and sterile area of

12  any airport, provided that no person shall be prohibited from

13  carrying any legal firearm into the terminal, which firearm is

14  encased for shipment for purposes of checking such firearm as

15  baggage to be lawfully transported on any aircraft; or any

16  place where the carrying of firearms is prohibited by federal

17  law. Any person who willfully violates any provision of this

18  subsection commits a misdemeanor of the second degree,

19  punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.

20         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2004.

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23                          SENATE SUMMARY

24    Provides that it is a second-degree misdemeanor to carry
      a concealed weapon or firearm into a district legislative
25    office or the Capital Complex. Exempts members of the
      Legislature and Cabinet officers from such prohibition.
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