Florida Senate - 2025                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 164
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  03/03/2025           .                                
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       The Committee on Environment and Natural Resources (Rodriguez)
       recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment 
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    3         Delete lines 821 - 838
    4  and insert:
    5         (6) A person, firm, or corporation violating this section
    6  commits a misdemeanor of the first degree and shall be punished
    7  as provided by law. A conviction under this section does not bar
    8  the assessment and collection of a civil penalty. The court
    9  having jurisdiction over the criminal offense, notwithstanding
   10  any jurisdictional limitations on the amount in controversy, may
   11  order the imposition of such civil penalty in addition to any
   12  sentence imposed for the first the criminal offense.
   13         (a) For a first offense, a person, firm, or corporation
   14  violating this section commits a misdemeanor of the first degree
   15  and shall be punished as provided by law.
   16         (b) For a second offense, a person, firm, or corporation
   17  violating this section commits a felony of the third degree,
   18  punishable as provided by law.
   19         (c) For a third and subsequent offenses, a person, firm, or
   20  corporation violating this section commits a felony of the
   21  second degree, punishable as provided by law.