Florida Senate - 2021                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS/HB 1, 1st Eng.
       
       
       
       
       
       
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             04/14/2021 04:06 PM       .                                
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       Senator Jones moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 444 and 445
    4  insert:
    5         Section 10. Notwithstanding any other provision of law:
    6         (1) When a law enforcement officer is charged with
    7  knowingly committing a battery upon a peaceful demonstrator, the
    8  battery for which the law enforcement officer is charged shall
    9  be reclassified from a misdemeanor of the first degree to a
   10  felony of the third degree.
   11         (2) A law enforcement officer convicted of battery upon a
   12  peaceful demonstrator committed during a peaceful demonstration
   13  of three or more persons shall be sentenced to a mandatory
   14  minimum term of imprisonment of 6 months.
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   16  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   17  And the title is amended as follows:
   18         Delete line 51
   19  and insert:
   20         or an aggravated riot; reclassifying the criminal
   21         penalty for a law enforcement officer who is charged
   22         with knowingly committing a battery upon a peaceful
   23         demonstrator; requiring a mandatory minimum term of
   24         imprisonment for a law enforcement officer convicted
   25         of battery upon a peaceful demonstrator during a
   26         certain demonstration; amending s. 806.13, F.S.;