Florida Senate - 2025                                     SB 612
       
       
        
       By Senator Burgess
       
       
       
       
       
       23-00632-25                                            2025612__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to murder; amending s. 782.04, F.S.;
    3         revising the elements that constitute the felony
    4         offense of murder in the third degree; providing an
    5         effective date.
    6          
    7  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
    8  
    9         Section 1. Subsection (4) of section 782.04, Florida
   10  Statutes, is amended to read:
   11         782.04 Murder.—
   12         (4) The unlawful killing of a human being, when perpetrated
   13  without any design to effect death, by a person engaged in the
   14  perpetration of, or in the attempt to perpetrate, any felony
   15  other than any:
   16         (a) Trafficking offense prohibited by s. 893.135(1),
   17         (b) Arson,
   18         (c) Sexual battery,
   19         (d) Robbery,
   20         (e) Burglary,
   21         (f) Kidnapping,
   22         (g) Escape,
   23         (h) Aggravated child abuse,
   24         (i) Aggravated abuse of an elderly person or disabled
   25  adult,
   26         (j) Aircraft piracy,
   27         (k) Unlawful throwing, placing, or discharging of a
   28  destructive device or bomb,
   29         (l) Unlawful distribution of any substance listed in sub
   30  subparagraphs (1)(a)3.a.-j. by a person 18 years of age or
   31  older, when such substance is proven to have caused, or is
   32  proven to have been a substantial factor in producing, the death
   33  of the user,
   34         (m) Carjacking,
   35         (n) Home-invasion robbery,
   36         (o) Aggravated stalking,
   37         (p) Murder of another human being,
   38         (q) Aggravated fleeing or eluding with serious bodily
   39  injury or death,
   40         (r) Resisting an officer with violence to his or her
   41  person, or
   42         (s) Felony that is an act of terrorism or is in furtherance
   43  of an act of terrorism, including a felony under s. 775.30, s.
   44  775.32, s. 775.33, s. 775.34, or s. 775.35,
   45  
   46  is murder in the third degree and constitutes a felony of the
   47  second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083,
   48  or s. 775.084.
   49         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.