Senate Bill sb0690

    Florida Senate - 2006                                   SB 690

    By Senator Bennett





    21-676-06                                           See HB 283

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to correctional probation

  3         officers; creating s. 943.17001, F.S.;

  4         requiring the Department of Corrections to

  5         provide a standardized firearm and ammunition

  6         to correctional probation officers; providing

  7         rulemaking authority of the department;

  8         providing an effective date.

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

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12         Section 1.  Section 943.17001, Florida Statutes, is

13  created to read:

14         943.17001  Correctional probation officers; provision

15  of standardized firearm and ammunition.--Upon completion of

16  training, certification, and approval as a correctional

17  probation officer, the Department of Corrections shall provide

18  to any correctional probation officer who chooses to carry a

19  firearm a standardized semiautomatic firearm as designated by

20  department rule, and, for the duration of the correctional

21  probation officer's employment, standardized ammunition as

22  designated by department rule for the semiautomatic firearm

23  issued to the correctional probation officer. If a

24  correctional probation officer elects to no longer carry a

25  firearm, changes the type of firearm he or she chooses to

26  carry, or is no longer employed by the department, he or she

27  must return the firearm and any unused ammunition issued by

28  the department. The department has the authority to adopt

29  rules pursuant to ss. 120.536(1) and 120.54 to implement the

30  provisions of this section.

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

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