Florida Senate - 2025                              CS for SB 612
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Criminal Justice; and Senator Burgess
       
       
       
       
       
       591-02842-25                                           2025612c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to murder; amending s. 782.04, F.S.;
    3         creating the offense of murder in the third degree;
    4         providing criminal penalties; providing an effective
    5         date.
    6          
    7  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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    9         Section 1. Present subsection (5) of section 782.04,
   10  Florida Statutes, is redesignated as subsection (6), and a new
   11  subsection (5) is added to that section, to read:
   12         782.04 Murder.—
   13         (5) The unlawful killing of a human being, when perpetrated
   14  without any design to effect death, by a person engaged in the
   15  perpetration of, or in the attempt to perpetrate, the unlawful
   16  distribution of any substance listed in sub-subparagraphs
   17  (1)(a)3.a.-j. by a person younger than 18 years of age, when
   18  such substance is proven to have caused or is proven to have
   19  been a substantial factor in producing the death of the user, is
   20  murder in the third degree and constitutes a felony of the
   21  second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083,
   22  or s. 775.084.
   23         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.