Florida Senate - 2020                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 652
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       The Committee on Criminal Justice (Pizzo) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Section 943.6872, Florida Statutes, is created
    6  to read:
    7         943.6872 Urban Core Gun Violence Task Force.—
    8         (1) The Urban Core Gun Violence Task Force, a task force as
    9  defined in s. 20.03, is created within the Department of Law
   10  Enforcement. Except as otherwise provided in this section, the
   11  task force shall comply with the requirements of s. 20.052.
   12         (2)(a) The 10-member task force shall convene no later than
   13  September 1, 2020, and must be composed of 2 members appointed
   14  by each of the following: the President of the Senate, the
   15  Minority Leader of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of
   16  Representatives, the Minority Leader of the House of
   17  Representatives, and the Governor. Appointments must be made by
   18  August 1, 2020. The Governor shall appoint a chair from among
   19  the members. Members serve at the pleasure of the officer who
   20  appointed them. A vacancy on the task force must be filled in
   21  the same manner as the original appointment. At least five of
   22  the task force members must be women and at least six must be
   23  members of racial minority groups.
   24         (b) The General Counsel of the Department of Law
   25  Enforcement shall serve as the general counsel for the task
   26  force.
   27         (c) The chair shall assign staff from the Department of Law
   28  Enforcement and the Department of Juvenile Justice to assist the
   29  task force in performing its duties.
   30         (d) The task force shall meet on a quarterly basis or at
   31  the call of the chair, as necessary to conduct its work, at a
   32  time and location in this state designated by the chair. The
   33  task force may not conduct its meetings through teleconferences
   34  or other similar means.
   35         (3) The task force shall investigate system failures and
   36  the causes of high crime rates and gun violence incidents in
   37  urban core neighborhoods and communities. In addition, the task
   38  force shall develop recommendations for solutions, programs,
   39  services, and strategies for improved interagency communications
   40  between local and state government agencies which will help
   41  facilitate the reduction of crime and gun violence in urban core
   42  neighborhoods and communities.
   43         (4) The task force may call upon appropriate state
   44  government agencies for such professional assistance as may be
   45  needed in the discharge of its duties, and such agencies shall
   46  provide such assistance in a timely manner.
   47         (5) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, the task
   48  force may request and shall be provided with access to any
   49  information or records that pertain to crime and gun violence
   50  incidents in this state’s urban core neighborhoods and
   51  communities. Information or records obtained by the task force
   52  which are otherwise exempt or confidential and exempt shall
   53  retain such exempt or confidential and exempt status, and the
   54  task force may not disclose any such information or records.
   55         (6) The task force shall submit an initial report on its
   56  findings and recommendations to the Governor, the President of
   57  the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives by
   58  January 1, 2021, and may issue reports annually thereafter.
   59         (7) This section is repealed on December 31, 2025.
   60         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2020.
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   63  And the title is amended as follows:
   64         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   65  and insert:
   66                        A bill to be entitled                      
   67         An act relating to the Urban Core Gun Violence Task
   68         Force; creating s. 943.6872, F.S.; creating the Urban
   69         Core Gun Violence Task Force; requiring the task force
   70         to comply with specified requirements; providing for
   71         membership; providing for staff support; providing
   72         requirements for meetings; specifying duties and
   73         powers of the task force; authorizing the task force
   74         to seek assistance from state agencies; providing for
   75         access to certain information; requiring an initial
   76         report; authorizing annual reports; providing for
   77         repeal of the task force; providing an effective date.