Florida Senate - 2025                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 150
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       Senator Gaetz moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. This act may be cited as “Trooper’s Law.”
    6         Section 2. Section 828.13, Florida Statutes, is amended to
    7  read:
    8         828.13 Confinement of animals without sufficient food,
    9  water, or exercise; abandonment of animals.—
   10         (1) As used in this section:
   11         (a) “Abandon” means to forsake an animal entirely or to
   12  neglect or refuse to provide or perform the legal obligations
   13  for care and support of an animal by its owner.
   14         (b) “Natural disaster” means a situation in which a
   15  hurricane, tropical storm, or tornado warning has been issued
   16  for a municipality or a county by the National Weather Service,
   17  or the municipality or county is under a mandatory or voluntary
   18  evacuation order.
   19         (c)(b) “Owner” includes any owner, custodian, or other
   20  person in charge of an animal.
   21         (d) “Restrain” means to attach a dog to a stationary object
   22  or trolley system by way of a chain, rope, tether, leash, cable,
   23  or other device.
   24         (2) Whoever:
   25         (a) Impounds or confines any animal in any place and fails
   26  to supply the animal during such confinement with a sufficient
   27  quantity of good and wholesome food and water,
   28         (b) Keeps any animals in any enclosure without wholesome
   29  exercise and change of air, or
   30         (c) Abandons to die any animal that is maimed, sick,
   31  infirm, or diseased,
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   33  commits is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree,
   34  punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or by a fine of not more
   35  than $5,000, or by both imprisonment and a fine.
   36         (3) Any person who is the owner or possessor, or has charge
   37  or custody, of any animal who abandons such animal to suffer
   38  injury or malnutrition or abandons any animal in a street, road,
   39  or public place without providing for the care, sustenance,
   40  protection, and shelter of such animal commits is guilty of a
   41  misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s.
   42  775.082 or by a fine of not more than $5,000, or by both
   43  imprisonment and a fine.
   44         (4) Any person who restrains a dog outside during a natural
   45  disaster and thereafter abandons the dog commits a felony of the
   46  third degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or by a fine
   47  of not more than $10,000, or both.
   48         Section 3. This act shall take effect October 1, 2025.
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   50  ================= T I T L E A M E N D M E N T ================
   51  And the title is amended as follows:
   52         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   53  and insert:
   54                        A bill to be entitled                      
   55         An act relating to abandoning restrained dogs during
   56         natural disasters; providing a short title; amending
   57         s. 828.13, F.S.; defining the terms “natural disaster”
   58         and “restrain”; providing criminal penalties for
   59         restraining a dog outside during a natural disaster
   60         and thereafter abandoning the dog; providing an
   61         effective date.