Florida Senate - 2025                                     SB 8-A
       
       
        
       By Senator Ingoglia
       
       
       
       
       
       11-00015-25A                                            20258A__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to combatting illegal immigration;
    3         amending s. 775.0848, F.S.; requiring the penalty
    4         reclassification of certain crimes committed after
    5         unlawful reentry into the United States; providing for
    6         severability; providing an effective date.
    7          
    8  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   10         Section 1. Section 775.0848, Florida Statutes, is amended
   11  to read:
   12         775.0848 Commission of a misdemeanor or felony after
   13  unlawful reentry into the United States; reclassification.—A
   14  person who has been previously convicted of a crime relating to
   15  the reentry of removed aliens under 8 U.S.C. s. 1326 shall have
   16  the penalty for committing a misdemeanor or felony committed
   17  after such conviction reclassified in the following manner:
   18         (1) A misdemeanor of the second degree is reclassified to a
   19  misdemeanor of the first degree.
   20         (2) A misdemeanor of the first degree is reclassified to a
   21  felony of the third degree.
   22         (3) A felony of the third degree is reclassified to a
   23  felony of the second degree.
   24         (4)(2) A felony of the second degree is reclassified to a
   25  felony of the first degree.
   26         (5)(3) A felony of the first degree is reclassified to a
   27  life felony.
   28         Section 2. If any provision of this act or its application
   29  to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity
   30  does not affect other provisions or applications of this act
   31  which can be given effect without the invalid provisions or
   32  application, and to this end the provisions of this act are
   33  severable.
   34         Section 3. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.