33 total bills, 7 anti-gun bills,
16 pro-gun bills for this session
Proposed Florida Firearm Legislation
33 total bills, 7 anti-gun bills,
16 pro-gun bills for this session
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Title: Threatened Use of Force
Description: Prohibiting the court from imposing certain mandatory minimum sentences if the court makes specified written findings; applying provisions relating to the use of force in defense of persons to the threatened use of force; applying presumption relating to the use of deadly force to the threatened use of deadly force in the defense of a residence and similar circumstances; applying immunity provisions that relate to the use of force to the threatened use of force; providing that a person is not justified in the threatened use of force to resist an arrest by a law enforcement officer, etc.
Last Action: Chapter No. 2014-195
Last Action Date: June 20, 2014
Title: Carrying Concealed Weapon or Concealed Firearm
Description: Providing an exemption from criminal penalties for carrying a concealed weapon or a concealed firearm when evacuating pursuant to a mandatory evacuation order during a declared state of emergency, etc.
Last Action: Died in Criminal Justice
Last Action Date: May 2, 2014
Title: Discriminatory Insurance Practices
Description: Provides that unfair discrimination on basis of firearm or ammunition ownership in provision of personal lines property or personal lines automobile insurance is discriminatory insurance practice; clarifies that insurers are not prevented from charging supplemental premiums or sharing information between insurer & its agent if separate rider has been requested.
Last Action: Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/SB 424 (Ch. 2014-180)
Last Action Date: April 21, 2014
Title: Use of Deadly Force
Description: Limits application of stand your ground law to instances in which attacker commits an overt act that leads person who is attacked to believe that it is necessary to meet force with force; provides that immunity from civil & criminal liability for certain uses of deadly force does not apply if person injures child or bystander who is not affiliated with overt act.
Last Action: Died in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Last Action Date: May 2, 2014
Title: Alcohol or Drug Impairment
Description: Provides that person commits offenses of driving or boating while impaired if driver satisfies specified criteria relating to consumption of alcohol or controlled substances; provides that person commits offense of driving while impaired if person has in blood or urine certain controlled substances in specified circumstances; provides that person is entitled to affirmative defense to offense of driving while impaired if, under certain circumstances, person charged with offense introduced controlled substance into his or her body pursuant to prescription; provides that use of nonprescribed substance does not constitute affirmative defense; provides that legal use alcohol, controlled substances, etc. does not constitute defense against charge of driving while impaired; provides that person commits offense of use of firearm while impaired if person uses firearm & satisfies specified criteria relating to consumption of alcohol or controlled substances; revises amount of alcohol concentration that gives rise to presumption of impairment for purposes of offense.
Last Action: Died in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Last Action Date: May 2, 2014
Title: Regulation of Firearms and Ammunition
Description: Provides that, except as otherwise expressly prohibited by State Constitution, county or municipality may regulate possession of firearms on property owned by such municipality or county.
Last Action: Died in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Last Action Date: May 2, 2014
Title: Restoration of Civil Rights
Description: Designates act as "Restoration of Civil Rights Act"; provides for automatic restoration of former felon's civil rights, other than right to own, possess, or use firearms, following completion of his or her sentence of incarceration & community supervision; provides conditions for & exemptions from automatic restoration; provides for education concerning civil rights of people who have felony convictions; provides for retroactive applicability; provides for contingent effect.
Last Action: Died in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Last Action Date: May 2, 2014
Title: Licensure to Carry a Concealed Weapon or Firearm
Description: Authorizes approved tax collectors to accept applications for licenses to carry concealed weapons or firearms; provides for tax collectors to be authorized to accept applications for licenses to carry concealed weapons or firearms; provides for memoranda of understanding between approved tax collectors & DOACS; provides for remission of revenue to DOACS; provides for retention of specified fees by tax collectors; prohibits tax collectors from maintaining certain lists; prohibits persons from receiving compensation for handling such applications unless authorized.
Last Action: Chapter No. 2014-205, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/HB 525 (Ch. 2014-206)
Last Action Date: June 20, 2014
Title: Pub. Rec./Personal Identifying Information/Licensure to Carry Concealed Weapon or Firearm
Description: Provides exemption from public records requirements for certain personal identifying information held by tax collector when individual applies for license to carry concealed weapon or firearm pursuant to s. 790.06, F.S.; provides for retroactive application of exemption; provides for disclosure of such information under specified conditions; provides for legislative review & repeal of exemption; provides statement of public necessity; provides for contingent effect.
Last Action: Chapter No. 2014-206, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 523 (Ch. 2014-205)
Last Action Date: June 20, 2014
Title: Concealed Weapons and Firearms
Description: Prohibits person from openly carrying handgun or carrying concealed weapon or firearm into hospital, mental health facility, or nursing home unless such person is security guard employed by hospital, mental health facility, or hospital or law enforcement officer.
Last Action: Died in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Last Action Date: May 2, 2014
Title: Federal Regulation of Firearms
Description: Designates act as "Second Amendment Preservation Act"; provides legislative findings; prohibits specified actions to enforce certain federal regulations of firearms & ammunition; provides for loss of position or office of agent or employee of state who violates prohibition.
Last Action: Withdrawn prior to introduction
Last Action Date: February 28, 2014
Title: School Safety
Description: Permits school superintendent, with approval of the school board, to authorize school safety designee to carry concealed weapon or firearm on school property; provides requirements for school safety designees; provides exception to prohibition on possession of firearms or other specified devices on school property or other specified areas; provides for fingerprint processing & retention; requires that fees be borne by school safety designee or school; requires school boards to formulate policies & procedures for dealing with active shooters & hostage situations in consultation with law enforcement; requires district school boards & private schools allow campus tours by local law enforcement agencies for specified purposes & that their recommendations be documented; permits district school boards to commission one or more school safety officers on each school campus.
Last Action: Died in Criminal Justice
Last Action Date: May 2, 2014
Title: Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement
Description: Specifies certain facilities that are exempt from transient rentals tax; deletes application of brackets for calculation of sales & use taxes; revises criteria establishing circumstances under which taxes on sale of prepaid calling arrangements are due; limits $5,000 cap on discretionary sales surtax to sale of certain vehicles and homes; provides criteria to determine situs of certain sales; requires purchasers of direct mail to use direct-mail forms; revises exemptions from sales & use tax for food & medical products; provides for computation of taxes due based on rounding instead of brackets; revises distribution of certain tax proceeds; provides amnesty for uncollected or unpaid sales & use taxes for sellers who register under Streamlined Sales & Use Tax Agreement; provides for adoption of emergency rules; repeals provisions pertaining to taxation of mail-order sales.
Last Action: Died in Finance and Tax Subcommittee
Last Action Date: May 2, 2014
Title: Court-Ordered Expunction of Criminal History Records
Description: Allows minors who have certain felony arrests to have FDLE expunge their nonjudicial arrest records upon successful completion of prearrest or postarrest diversion program; extends application submission date for minors who completed program before certain date; revises information that must be provided in written statement from state attorney or statewide prosecutor for person to be eligible for expunction; revises when certificate of eligibility for expunction shall be issued; authorizes FDLE to enter certain expunged records in specified databases; requires FDLE to disclose certain expunged records to specified governmental entities.
Last Action: Died in Criminal Justice
Last Action Date: May 2, 2014
Title: Use of Deadly Force in Defense of a Person
Description: Repeals provisions relating to home protection & use of deadly force, which created presumption of fear of death or great bodily harm in certain circumstances & provided that person has no duty to retreat & has right to stand his or her ground & meet force with force in certain circumstances; conforms provisions.
Last Action: Introduced
Last Action Date: March 4, 2014
Title: Use of Deadly Force in Defense of a Person
Description: Repealing a provision relating to home protection and the use of deadly force, which created a presumption of fear of death or great bodily harm in certain circumstances and provided that a person has no duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground and meet force with force in certain circumstances, etc.
Last Action: Died in Judiciary
Last Action Date: May 2, 2014
Title: Use of Deadly Force
Description: (THIS BILL COMBINES S130 & S122) Requiring the county sheriff or municipal police department to issue reasonable guidelines for the operation of neighborhood crime watch programs; providing that a person who is justified in using force is immune from criminal prosecution and civil action initiated by the person against whom the force was used; providing that provocation justifying the use of defensive force must include the use of force or the threat of the use of force, etc.
Last Action: Died in Judiciary, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 89 (Ch. 2014-195)
Last Action Date: May 2, 2014
Title: Use of Deadly Force
Description: Limiting the application of the stand your ground law to instances in which the attacker commits an overt act that leads the person who is attacked to believe that it is necessary to meet force with force; providing that immunity from civil and criminal liability for certain uses of deadly force does not apply if the person injures a child or bystander who is not affiliated with the overt act, etc.
Last Action: Died in Judiciary
Last Action Date: May 2, 2014
Title: Carrying a Concealed Weapon or a Concealed Firearm
Description: Providing an exemption from criminal penalties for carrying a concealed weapon or a concealed firearm while in the act of complying with a mandatory evacuation order during a declared state of emergency, etc.
Last Action: Died on Calendar
Last Action Date: May 2, 2014
Title: Discriminatory Insurance Practices
Description: Providing that unfair discrimination on the basis of gun ownership in the provision of personal lines property or personal lines automobile insurance is a discriminatory insurance practice; clarifying that insurers are not prevented from charging supplemental premiums or sharing information between an insurer and its agent if a separate rider has been requested, etc.
Last Action: Chapter No. 2014-180
Last Action Date: June 20, 2014
Title: Defense of Life, Home, or Property
Description: Providing that the defensive display of a weapon or firearm, including the discharge of a firearm as a warning shot, does not constitute the use of deadly force; providing that a person is immune from prosecution if he or she acts in defense of life, home, or property from an unlawful activity or the threat of an unlawful activity under certain circumstances; providing for the justifiable defensive display of a weapon or firearm in certain circumstances, etc.
Last Action: Died in Criminal Justice, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 89 (Ch. 2014-195)
Last Action Date: May 2, 2014
Title: Threatened Use of Force
Description: Prohibiting the court from imposing certain mandatory minimum sentences if the court makes specified written findings; applying provisions relating to the use of force in defense of persons to the threatened use of force; applying presumption relating to the use of deadly force to the threatened use of deadly force in the defense of a residence and similar circumstances; applying immunity provisions that relate to the use of force to the threatened use of force; providing that a person is not justified in the threatened use of force to resist an arrest by a law enforcement officer, etc.
Last Action: Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 89 (Ch. 2014-195)
Last Action Date: April 3, 2014
Title: Regulation of Firearms and Ammunition
Description: Providing that, except as otherwise expressly prohibited by the State Constitution, a county or municipality may regulate the field of possession of firearms on property owned by such county or municipality, etc.
Last Action: Died in Criminal Justice
Last Action Date: May 2, 2014
Title: Licensure to Carry a Concealed Weapon or Firearm
Description: Authorizing an applicant for a license to carry a concealed weapon or firearm to submit the application to an appointed tax collector; authorizing the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to appoint tax collectors to accept applications for new or renewal licenses to carry a concealed weapon or firearm on behalf of the Division of Licensing of the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, etc.
Last Action: Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 523 (Ch. 2014-205), CS/HB 525 (Ch. 2014-206)
Last Action Date: April 23, 2014
Title: Public Records/Personal Identifying Information/License to Carry a Concealed Weapon or Firearm
Description: Creating an exemption from public records requirements for certain personal identifying information held by the tax collector when an individual applies for a license to carry a concealed weapon or firearm pursuant to specified provisions; providing for retroactive application of the exemption; providing for disclosure of such information under specified conditions; providing for review and repeal of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.
Last Action: Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/HB 525 (Ch. 2014-206), CS/CS/HB 523 (Ch. 2014-205)
Last Action Date: April 24, 2014
Title: Concealed Weapons and Firearms
Description: Prohibiting a person from openly carrying a handgun or carrying a concealed weapon or firearm into a hospital, mental health facility, or nursing home unless such person is a security guard employed by the hospital, mental health facility, or hospital or a law enforcement officer; providing a criminal penalty, etc.
Last Action: Died in Criminal Justice
Last Action Date: May 2, 2014
Title: Department of Juvenile Justice
Description: Allowing a child who has been detained to be transferred to the detention center or facility in the circuit in which the child resides or will reside at the time of detention; requiring the court to hold a hearing if a child is charged with direct contempt of court and to afford the child due process at such hearing; providing goals for the department's prevention services; prohibiting an employee from willfully and maliciously neglecting a juvenile offender, etc.
Last Action: Filed
Last Action Date: January 22, 2014
Title: Expunction
Description: Allowing minors who have certain felony arrests to have the Department of Law Enforcement expunge their nonjudicial arrest record upon successful completion of a prearrest or postarrest diversion program; revising the information that must be provided in the written statement from the state attorney or statewide prosecutor in order for a person to be eligible for a criminal history record expunction; revising when a certificate of eligibility for expunction shall be issued, etc.
Last Action: Died in Judiciary
Last Action Date: May 2, 2014
Title: Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement
Description: Specifying the facilities that are exempt from the transient rentals tax; deleting the application of brackets for the calculation of sales and use taxes; limiting the $5,000 cap on discretionary sales surtax to the sale of motor vehicles, aircraft, boats, manufactured homes, modular homes, and mobile homes; providing criteria to hold purchasers harmless for failure to pay the correct amount of tax; holding sellers harmless for failing to collect a tax at a new rate under certain circumstances; providing for the creation of a taxability matrix, etc.
Last Action: Died in Commerce and Tourism
Last Action Date: May 2, 2014
Title: School Safety
Description: Providing an exception to a prohibition on possession of firearms or other specified devices on school property or in other specified areas for authorized concealed weapon or firearm licensees as designated by school principals or district superintendents; requiring a school district board to formulate policies and procedures for managing active-shooter and hostage situations; requiring a district school board or private school principal to allow for campus tours by local law enforcement agencies once every 3 years, etc.
Last Action: Died in Education
Last Action Date: May 2, 2014
Title: Code of Student Conduct
Description: Providing that simulating a firearm or weapon while playing or wearing certain clothing or accessories is not grounds for disciplinary action or referral to the criminal justice or juvenile justice system; providing actions that constitute simulating a firearm or weapon while playing; providing criteria for determining whether certain student conduct warrants disciplinary action, etc.
Last Action: Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see HB 7029 (Ch. 2014-219)
Last Action Date: April 23, 2014
Title: Alcohol or Drug Impairment
Description: Providing that a person commits the offense of driving while impaired and is subject to punishment for such violation if the person is driving a motor vehicle and satisfies the specified criteria relating to the consumption of alcohol or controlled substances; providing that a person commits the offense of use of a firearm while impaired and is subject to punishment for such violation if the person uses a firearm and satisfies the specified criteria relating to the consumption of alcohol or controlled substances, etc.
Last Action: Died in Transportation
Last Action Date: May 2, 2014
Title: Restoration of Civil Rights
Description: Citing this act as the "Restoration of Civil Rights Act"; providing for automatic restoration of a former felon's civil rights under certain circumstances; providing conditions for and exemptions from automatic restoration; providing for education concerning the civil rights of persons who have felony convictions; providing for retroactive applicability, etc.
Last Action: Died in Criminal Justice
Last Action Date: May 2, 2014
