Florida Senate - 2015                              CS for SB 542
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Criminal Justice; and Senators Benacquisto
       and Simpson
       
       
       
       
       591-01815-15                                           2015542c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to interception of wire, oral, or
    3         electronic communication; amending s. 934.03, F.S.;
    4         authorizing a child younger than 18 years of age to
    5         intercept and record an oral communication if the
    6         child is a party to the communication and certain
    7         conditions are met; providing an effective date.
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    9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   11         Section 1. Paragraph (k) is added to subsection (2) of
   12  section 934.03, Florida Statutes, to read:
   13         934.03 Interception and disclosure of wire, oral, or
   14  electronic communications prohibited.—
   15         (2)
   16         (k) It is lawful under ss. 934.03-934.09 for a child under
   17  18 years of age to intercept and record an oral communication if
   18  the child is a party to the communication and has reasonable
   19  grounds to believe that recording the communication will capture
   20  a statement by another party to the communication that the other
   21  party intends to commit, is committing, or has committed an
   22  unlawful sexual act or an unlawful act of physical force or
   23  violence against the child.
   24         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2015.