Florida Senate - 2020                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 728
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       The Committee on Infrastructure and Security (Stargel)
       recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 16 - 24
    4  and insert:
    5         (a) The use of a firearm or any weapon, including the
    6  future use of a firearm or any weapon if the threat is
    7  sufficient to cause alarm in a reasonable person; or
    8         (b) To threaten to throw, project, place, or discharge any
    9  destructive device, including the future throwing, projecting,
   10  placing, or discharging of any destructive device,
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   12  with intent to do bodily harm to any person or with intent to do
   13  damage to any property of any person.
   14         (2) A, and any person who violates subsection (1) convicted
   15  thereof commits a felony of the second degree, punishable as
   16  provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.
   17         Section 2. Subsection (1) of section 790.163, Florida
   18  Statutes, is amended to read:
   19         790.163 False report concerning planting a bomb, an
   20  explosive, or a weapon of mass destruction, or concerning the
   21  use of firearms in a violent manner; penalty.—
   22         (1) It is unlawful for any person to make a false report,
   23  with intent to deceive, mislead, or otherwise misinform any
   24  person, concerning the current or future placing or planting of
   25  any bomb, dynamite, other deadly explosive, or weapon of mass
   26  destruction as defined in s. 790.166, or concerning the current
   27  or future use of firearms in a violent manner against a person
   28  or persons. A person who violates this subsection commits a
   29  felony of the second degree, punishable as provided in s.
   30  775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.
   31         Section 3. Subsection (1) of section 790.164, Florida
   32  Statutes, is amended to read:
   33         790.164 False reports concerning planting a bomb,
   34  explosive, or weapon of mass destruction in, or committing arson
   35  against, state-owned property, or concerning the use of firearms
   36  in a violent manner; penalty; reward.—
   37         (1) It is unlawful for any person to make a false report,
   38  with intent to deceive, mislead, or otherwise misinform any
   39  person, concerning the current or future placing or planting of
   40  any bomb, dynamite, other deadly explosive, or weapon of mass
   41  destruction as defined in s. 790.166, concerning any act of
   42  arson or other violence to property owned by the state or any
   43  political subdivision, or concerning the current or future use
   44  of firearms in a violent manner against a person or persons. A
   45  person who violates this subsection commits a felony of the
   46  second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083,
   47  or s. 775.084.
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   49  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   50  And the title is amended as follows:
   51         Delete lines 3 - 4
   52  and insert:
   53         prohibiting threats to use, including future threats
   54         to use, a firearm or weapon with specified intent;
   55         prohibiting a person from threatening the future
   56         throwing, projecting, placing, or discharging of any
   57         destructive device with specified intent; providing
   58         criminal penalties; amending s. 790.163, F.S.;
   59         prohibiting a person from making a false report with
   60         specified intent concerning the current or future
   61         placing or planting of any bomb, dynamite, other
   62         deadly explosive, or weapon of mass destruction or
   63         concerning the current or future use of a firearm in a
   64         violent manner against a person or persons; providing
   65         criminal penalties; amending s. 790.164, F.S.;
   66         prohibiting a person from making a false report with
   67         specified intent concerning the current or future
   68         placing or planting of any bomb, dynamite, other
   69         deadly explosive, or weapon of mass destruction
   70         concerning any act of arson or other violence to
   71         property owned by the state or a political
   72         subdivision, or concerning the current or future use
   73         of firearms in a violent manner against a person or
   74         persons; providing criminal penalties;