Senate Bill sb1418c1

    Florida Senate - 2006                           CS for SB 1418

    By the Committee on Criminal Justice; and Senator Atwater





    591-2076-06

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to perjury; creating s.

  3         837.051, F.S.; providing a penalty for

  4         knowingly and willfully giving false

  5         information to a law enforcement officer who is

  6         in the course of conducting a felony or

  7         missing-person investigation with the intent to

  8         mislead the officer or impede the

  9         investigation; 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.  Section 837.051, Florida Statutes, is

14  created to read:

15         837.051  False information to law enforcement officer

16  during investigation.--Whoever knowingly and willfully gives

17  false information to a law enforcement officer who is

18  conducting a missing person investigation or felony criminal

19  investigation with the intent to mislead the officer or impede

20  the investigation commits a misdemeanor of the first degree,

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

22         Section 2.  This act shall take effect October 1, 2006.

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24          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
25                         Senate Bill 1418

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27  Provides that it is a first degree misdemeanor for a person to
    knowingly and willfully give false information to a law
28  enforcement officer who is conducting a missing person
    investigation or felony criminal investigation with the intent
29  to mislead the officer or impede the investigation.

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