Florida Senate - 2016                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 408
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  02/25/2016           .                                
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       The Committee on Children, Families, and Elder Affairs (Altman)
       recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment 
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    3         Delete lines 55 - 77
    4  and insert:
    5  the juvenile’s participation in a similar diversion program when
    6  the juvenile is under 14 years of age and if each violation of
    7  law in the misdemeanor offense is one of the following:
    8         1. Section 562.111, relating to possession of alcoholic
    9  beverages by persons under age 21;
   10         2. Section 784.03(1), relating to battery, if the victim
   11  approves the juvenile’s participation in a civil citation or
   12  similar diversion program;
   13         3. Section 812.014(2)(e) or s. 812.014(3)(a), relating to
   14  theft;
   15         4. Section 812.015(2), relating to retail and farm theft;
   16         5. Section 843.02, relating to resisting an officer without
   17  violence;
   18         6. Section 870.01(1), relating to affrays and riots;
   19         7. Section 877.03, relating to disorderly conduct;
   20         8. Section 893.13(6)(b), relating to possession of certain
   21  amounts of cannabis or controlled substances; or
   22         9. Section 893.147, relating to use, possession,
   23  manufacture, delivery, transportation, advertisement, or retail
   24  sale of drug paraphernalia.
   25         (b) May issue a civil citation to the juvenile or require
   26  the juvenile’s participation in a similar diversion program if
   27  the violations of law are not enumerated in paragraph (a), or if
   28  the violation of law is one of the enumerated offenses in
   29  paragraph (a) and the juvenile is 14 years of age or older.