Senate Bill sb2240c1

    Florida Senate - 2005                           CS for SB 2240

    By the Committee on Criminal Justice; and Senator Siplin





    591-2184A-05

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to dart-firing stun guns;

  3         creating s. 943.1717, F.S.; providing

  4         parameters within which law enforcement,

  5         correctional probation and correctional

  6         officers may employ dart-firing stun guns;

  7         requiring that the Criminal Justice Standards

  8         and Training Commission establish standards for

  9         instruction in the use of dart-firing stun guns

10         in self defense and in the use of deadly force;

11         requiring that a minimum number of hours in

12         such training be included in the basic-skills

13         course required for certification; providing an

14         effective date.

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

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18         Section 1.  Section 943.1717, Florida Statutes, is

19  created to read:

20         943.1717  Use of dart-firing stun guns.--Law

21  enforcement officers', correctional probation officers' and

22  correctional officers' decision to employ the dart-firing stun

23  gun shall involve an arrest or custodial situation wherein the

24  subject is escalating resistance from passive physical

25  resistance towards active physical resistance and the subject:

26         (1)  Has the apparent ability to physically challenge

27  the officer, or

28         (2)  Is preparing to or is attempting to flee or

29  escape.

30         (3)  The Criminal Justice Standards and Training

31  Commission shall establish standards for instructing law

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    Florida Senate - 2005                           CS for SB 2240
    591-2184A-05




 1  enforcement officers in the use of dart-firing stun guns in

 2  self defense and in the use of deadly force. Each basic-skills

 3  course required for certification as a law enforcement

 4  officer, correctional probation officer, or correctional

 5  officer must include instruction on the potential effect of

 6  dart-firing stun guns on persons under the influence of

 7  alcohol or drugs and must be a minimum of 4 hours in duration.

 8         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

 9  law.

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11          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
12                         Senate Bill 2240

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14  -    Requires law enforcement, correctional probation and
         correctional officers to take certain conditions into
15       consideration as they make a decision whether to use a
         dart-firing stun gun.
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    -    Requires that the training established by the Criminal
17       Justice Standards and Training Commission include
         instruction on the potential effect of dart-firing stun
18       guns on persons under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

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