Florida Senate - 2009                                    SB 1340
       
       
       
       By Senator Crist
       
       
       
       
       12-01857-09                                           20091340__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to firearms transactions; amending s.
    3         790.335, F.S.; clarifying that violations of
    4         provisions prohibiting keeping any list, record, or
    5         registry of privately owned firearms or any list,
    6         record, or registry of the owners of those firearms
    7         may be committed by entities as well as individuals;
    8         requiring that secondhand dealers and pawnbrokers who
    9         electronically submit certain firearm transaction
   10         records to law enforcement agencies submit specified
   11         information in Florida Crime Information Center
   12         coding; providing an effective date.
   13         
   14  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   16         Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subsection (4) of section
   17  790.335, Florida Statutes, is amended, present subsection (5) is
   18  renumbered as subsection (6), and a new subsection (5) is added
   19  to that section, to read:
   20         790.335 Prohibition of registration of firearms; electronic
   21  records.—
   22         (4) PENALTIES.—
   23         (a) Any person who, or entity that, violates a provision of
   24  this section commits a felony of the third degree, punishable as
   25  provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.
   26         (5) ELECTRONIC RECORDS.—Secondhand dealers and pawnbrokers
   27  who electronically submit firearms transaction records to the
   28  appropriate law enforcement agencies as required by chapters 538
   29  and 539 shall submit the name of the manufacturer, model, serial
   30  number, and caliber information of each firearm in Florida Crime
   31  Information Center coding.
   32         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2009.