Senate Bill sb2032

    Florida Senate - 2006                                  SB 2032

    By Senator Wise





    5-1630-06                                           See HB 669

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the Criminal Justice

  3         Standards and Training Commission; creating s.

  4         943.132, F.S.; requiring the Criminal Justice

  5         Standards and Training Commission to adopt

  6         rules for the implementation of the federal Law

  7         Enforcement Officers Safety Act of 2004;

  8         requiring the commission to develop and

  9         authorize a uniform firearms proficiency

10         verification card to be issued to certain

11         qualified law enforcement officers and

12         qualified retired law enforcement officers;

13         authorizing the use of specified facilities

14         operating firing ranges for testing of persons

15         other than law enforcement officers; providing

16         an effective date.

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

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20         Section 1.  Section 943.132, Florida Statutes, is

21  created to read:

22         943.132  Implementation of federal Law Enforcement

23  Officers Safety Act of 2004.--

24         (1)  The commission shall by rule establish the manner

25  in which Title 18, 44 U.S.C. ss. 926B and 926C, the federal

26  Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act of 2004, relating to the

27  carrying of concealed firearms by qualified law enforcement

28  officers and qualified retired law enforcement officers, as

29  defined in the act, shall be implemented in the state. In

30  order to facilitate the implementation within the state of

31  Title 18, 44 U.S.C. ss. 926B and 926C, the commission shall

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    Florida Senate - 2006                                  SB 2032
    5-1630-06                                           See HB 669




 1  develop and authorize a uniform firearms proficiency

 2  verification card to be issued to qualified law enforcement

 3  officers and qualified retired law enforcement officers who

 4  achieve a passing score on the firing range testing component

 5  of the minimum firearms proficiency course for active law

 6  enforcement officers, indicating the person's name and the

 7  date upon which he or she achieved the passing score. Each

 8  such card shall be issued only by range instructors certified

 9  by the commission.

10         (2)  Facilities operating firing ranges on which range

11  instructors certified by the commission administer the firing

12  range testing component of the minimum firearms proficiency

13  course for active law enforcement officers may open the firing

14  range under terms and conditions established by the operating

15  entity to other persons for purposes of allowing such persons

16  to demonstrate their ability to achieve a passing score on the

17  firing range testing component of the minimum firearms

18  proficiency course. All costs associated with the

19  demonstration by any such person that he or she meets the

20  requirements of the firing range testing component of the

21  minimum firearms proficiency course shall be at the expense of

22  the person being tested.

23         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2006.

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