Florida Senate - 2025                                     SB 776
       
       
        
       By Senator Ingoglia
       
       
       
       
       
       11-00763-25                                            2025776__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to aggravating factors for capital
    3         felonies; amending s. 921.141, F.S.; adding as an
    4         aggravating factor that the capital felony was
    5         committed against the head of a state, or in an
    6         attempt to commit such crime a capital felony was
    7         committed against another individual; providing an
    8         effective date.
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   10  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   12         Section 1. Paragraph (q) is added to subsection (6) of
   13  section 921.141, Florida Statutes, to read:
   14         921.141 Sentence of death or life imprisonment for capital
   15  felonies; further proceedings to determine sentence.—
   16         (6) AGGRAVATING FACTORS.—Aggravating factors shall be
   17  limited to the following:
   18         (q) The capital felony was committed against the head of a
   19  state, including, but not limited to, the President or the Vice
   20  President of the United States or the Governor of this or
   21  another state, or in an attempt to commit such crime a capital
   22  felony was committed against another individual.
   23         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.