Florida Senate - 2026                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 398
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  12/09/2025           .                                
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       The Committee on Criminal Justice (Leek) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with directory and title amendments)
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    3         Between lines 474 and 475
    4  insert:
    5         (e) LEVEL 5
    6  
    7  FloridaStatute             FelonyDegree         Description        
    8  316.027(2)(a)                   3rd      Accidents involving personal injuries other than serious bodily injury, failure to stop; leaving scene.
    9  316.1935(3)(a)                  2nd      Driving at high speed or with wanton disregard for safety while fleeing or attempting to elude law enforcement officer who is in a patrol vehicle with siren and lights activated.
   10  316.80(2)                       2nd      Unlawful conveyance of fuel; obtaining fuel fraudulently.
   11  322.34(6)                       3rd      Careless operation of motor vehicle with suspended license, resulting in death or serious bodily injury.
   12  327.30(5)(a)2.                  3rd      Vessel accidents involving personal injuries other than serious bodily injury; leaving scene.
   13  365.172 (14)(b)2.               2nd      Misuse of emergency communications system resulting in death.
   14  379.365(2)(c)1.                 3rd      Violation of rules relating to: willful molestation of stone crab traps, lines, or buoys; illegal bartering, trading, or sale, conspiring or aiding in such barter, trade, or sale, or supplying, agreeing to supply, aiding in supplying, or giving away stone crab trap tags or certificates; making, altering, forging, counterfeiting, or reproducing stone crab trap tags; possession of forged, counterfeit, or imitation stone crab trap tags; and engaging in the commercial harvest of stone crabs while license is suspended or revoked.
   15  379.367(4)                      3rd      Willful molestation of a commercial harvester’s spiny lobster trap, line, or buoy.
   16  379.407(5)(b)3.                 3rd      Possession of 100 or more undersized spiny lobsters.
   17  381.0041(11)(b)                 3rd      Donate blood, plasma, or organs knowing HIV positive.
   18  440.10(1)(g)                    2nd      Failure to obtain workers’ compensation coverage.
   19  440.105(5)                      2nd      Unlawful solicitation for the purpose of making workers’ compensation claims.
   20  440.381(2)                      3rd      Submission of false, misleading, or incomplete information with the purpose of avoiding or reducing workers’ compensation premiums.
   21  624.401(4)(b)2.                 2nd      Transacting insurance without a certificate or authority; premium collected $20,000 or more but less than $100,000.
   22  626.902(1)(c)                   2nd      Representing an unauthorized insurer; repeat offender.
   23  790.01(3)                       3rd      Unlawful carrying of a concealed firearm.
   24  790.162                         2nd      Threat to throw or discharge destructive device.
   25  790.163(1)                      2nd      False report of bomb, explosive, weapon of mass destruction, or use of firearms in violent manner.
   26  790.221(1)                      2nd      Possession of short-barreled shotgun or machine gun.
   27  790.23                          2nd      Felons in possession of firearms, ammunition, or electronic weapons or devices.
   28  796.05(1)                       2nd      Live on earnings of a prostitute; 1st offense.
   29  800.04(6)(c)                    3rd      Lewd or lascivious conduct; offender less than 18 years of age.
   30  800.04(7)(b)                    2nd      Lewd or lascivious exhibition; offender 18 years of age or older.
   31  806.111(1)                      3rd      Possess, manufacture, or dispense fire bomb with intent to damage any structure or property.
   32  810.145(4)                      3rd      Commercial digital voyeurism dissemination.
   33  810.145(7)(a)                   2nd      Digital voyeurism; 2nd or subsequent offense.
   34  810.145(8)(a)                   2nd      Digital voyeurism; certain minor victims.
   35  812.014(2)(d)3.                 2nd      Grand theft, 2nd degree; theft from 20 or more dwellings or their unenclosed curtilage, or any combination.
   36  812.0145(2)(b)                  2nd      Theft from person 65 years of age or older; $10,000 or more but less than $50,000.
   37  812.015 (8)(a) & (c)-(e)        3rd      Retail theft; property stolen is valued at $750 or more and one or more specified acts.
   38  812.015(8)(f)                   3rd      Retail theft; multiple thefts within specified period.
   39  812.015(8)(g)                   3rd      Retail theft; committed with specified number of other persons.
   40  812.019(1)                      2nd      Stolen property; dealing in or trafficking in.
   41  812.081(3)                      2nd      Trafficking in trade secrets.
   42  812.131(2)(b)                   3rd      Robbery by sudden snatching.
   43  812.16(2)                       3rd      Owning, operating, or conducting a chop shop.
   44  817.034(4)(a)2.                 2nd      Communications fraud, value $20,000 to $50,000.
   45  817.234(11)(b)                  2nd      Insurance fraud; property value $20,000 or more but less than $100,000.
   46  817.2341(1), (2)(a) & (3)(a)      3rd      Filing false financial statements, making false entries of material fact or false statements regarding property values relating to the solvency of an insuring entity.
   47  817.568(2)(b)                   2nd      Fraudulent use of personal identification information; value of benefit, services received, payment avoided, or amount of injury or fraud, $5,000 or more or use of personal identification information of 10 or more persons.
   48  817.611(2)(a)                   2nd      Traffic in or possess 5 to 14 counterfeit credit cards or related documents.
   49  817.625(2)(b)                   2nd      Second or subsequent fraudulent use of scanning device, skimming device, or reencoder.
   50  825.1025(4)                     3rd      Lewd or lascivious exhibition in the presence of an elderly person or disabled adult.
   51  828.12(2)                       3rd      Tortures any animal with intent to inflict intense pain, serious physical injury, or death.
   52  836.14(4)                       2nd      Person who willfully promotes for financial gain a sexually explicit image of an identifiable person without consent.
   53  839.13(2)(b)                    2nd      Falsifying records of an individual in the care and custody of a state agency involving great bodily harm or death.
   54  843.01(1)                       3rd      Resist officer with violence to person; resist arrest with violence.
   55  847.0135(5)(b)                  2nd      Lewd or lascivious exhibition using computer; offender 18 years or older.
   56  847.0137 (2) & (3)              3rd      Transmission of child sexual abuse material pornography by electronic device or equipment.
   57  847.0138 (2) & (3)              3rd      Transmission of material harmful to minors to a minor by electronic device or equipment.
   58  874.05(1)(b)                    2nd      Encouraging or recruiting another to join a criminal gang; second or subsequent offense.
   59  874.05(2)(a)                    2nd      Encouraging or recruiting person under 13 years of age to join a criminal gang.
   60  893.13(1)(a)1.                  2nd      Sell, manufacture, or deliver cocaine (or other s. 893.03(1)(a), (1)(b), (1)(d), (2)(a), (2)(b), or (2)(c)5. drugs).
   61  893.13(1)(c)2.                  2nd      Sell, manufacture, or deliver cannabis (or other s. 893.03(1)(c), (2)(c)1., (2)(c)2., (2)(c)3., (2)(c)6., (2)(c)7., (2)(c)8., (2)(c)9., (2)(c)10., (3), or (4) drugs) within 1,000 feet of a child care facility, school, or state, county, or municipal park or publicly owned recreational facility or community center.
   62  893.13(1)(d)1.                  1st      Sell, manufacture, or deliver cocaine (or other s. 893.03(1)(a), (1)(b), (1)(d), (2)(a), (2)(b), or (2)(c)5. drugs) within 1,000 feet of university.
   63  893.13(1)(e)2.                  2nd      Sell, manufacture, or deliver cannabis or other drug prohibited under s. 893.03(1)(c), (2)(c)1., (2)(c)2., (2)(c)3., (2)(c)6., (2)(c)7., (2)(c)8., (2)(c)9., (2)(c)10., (3), or (4) within 1,000 feet of property used for religious services or a specified business site.
   64  893.13(1)(f)1.                  1st      Sell, manufacture, or deliver cocaine (or other s. 893.03(1)(a), (1)(b), (1)(d), or (2)(a), (2)(b), or (2)(c)5. drugs) within 1,000 feet of public housing facility.
   65  893.13(4)(b)                    2nd      Use or hire of minor; deliver to minor other controlled substance.
   66  893.1351(1)                     3rd      Ownership, lease, or rental for trafficking in or manufacturing of controlled substance.
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   69  ====== D I R E C T O R Y  C L A U S E  A M E N D M E N T ======
   70  And the directory clause is amended as follows:
   71         Delete line 470
   72  and insert:
   73         Section 17. Paragraphs (e), (f), and (g) of subsection (3)
   74  of
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   76  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   77  And the title is amended as follows:
   78         Delete lines 5 - 8
   79  and insert:
   80         847.002, 847.01357, 847.0139, 903.011, 948.06, 960.03,
   81         and 960.197, F.S.; replacing the term “child
   82         pornography” with the term “child sexual abuse
   83         material”; amending ss. 847.0137 and 921.0022, F.S.;
   84         replacing the