Florida Senate - 2025                                     SB 494
       
       
        
       By Senator Leek
       
       
       
       
       
       7-00649A-25                                            2025494__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to animal cruelty; amending s. 828.12,
    3         F.S.; requiring the Department of Law Enforcement to
    4         post on its website the names of certain individuals
    5         who have violated specified animal cruelty provisions;
    6         providing an effective date.
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    8  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   10         Section 1. Subsection (7) is added to section 828.12,
   11  Florida Statutes, to read:
   12         828.12 Cruelty to animals.—
   13         (7) Beginning January 1, 2026, the Department of Law
   14  Enforcement shall post on its website, in a searchable format
   15  prescribed by the department, the names of those individuals who
   16  have been convicted of, or who have entered a plea of guilty or
   17  nolo contendere to, regardless of adjudication, a violation of
   18  this section.
   19         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.