Florida Senate - 2015                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. PCS (654302) for CS for SB 1444
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  04/16/2015           .                                
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       The Committee on Appropriations (Richter) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 934 and 935
    4  insert:
    5         Section 22. Subsection (4) is added to section 790.15,
    6  Florida Statutes, to read:
    7         790.15 Discharging firearm in public or on residential
    8  property.—
    9         (4) Any person who recreationally discharges a firearm
   10  outdoors, including for target shooting or celebratory shooting,
   11  in an area that the person knows or reasonably should know is
   12  primarily residential in nature and that has a residential
   13  density of one or more dwelling units per acre, commits a
   14  misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s.
   15  775.082 or s. 775.083. This subsection does not apply:
   16         (a) To a person lawfully defending life or property or
   17  performing official duties requiring the discharge of a firearm;
   18  or
   19         (b) If, under the circumstances, the discharge does not
   20  pose a reasonably foreseeable risk to life, safety, or property.
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   22  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   23  And the title is amended as follows:
   24         Delete line 110
   25  and insert:
   26         licenses; amending s. 790.15, F.S.; prohibiting the
   27         recreational discharge of a firearm in certain
   28         residential areas; providing criminal penalties;
   29         providing exceptions; providing an effective date.