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Senate Bill 0514

    By Senator Grant





    13-608-98                                          See HB 3107

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to sexual predator

  3         registration; amending s. 775.21, F.S.;

  4         removing an exception to sexual predator

  5         registration requirements which authorizes the

  6         court to remove the sexual predator designation

  7         upon petition by a sexual predator who has not

  8         been arrested for at least 10 years following

  9         release; providing an effective date.

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11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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13         Section 1.  Paragraph (g) of subsection (6) of section

14  775.21, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

15         775.21  The Florida Sexual Predators Act; definitions;

16  legislative findings, purpose, and intent; criteria;

17  designation; registration; community and public notification;

18  immunity; penalties.--

19         (6)  REGISTRATION.--

20         (g)  A sexual predator must maintain registration with

21  the department for the duration of his or her life, unless the

22  sexual predator has had his or her civil rights restored, or

23  has received a full pardon or has had a conviction set aside

24  in a postconviction proceeding for any felony sex offense that

25  met the criteria for the sexual predator designation. However,

26  a sexual predator who has been lawfully released from

27  confinement, supervision, or sanction, whichever is later, for

28  at least 10 years and has not been arrested for any felony or

29  misdemeanor offense since release, may petition the criminal

30  division of the circuit court for the purpose of removing the

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    Florida Senate - 1998                                   SB 514
    13-608-98                                          See HB 3107




  1  sexual predator designation. The court has the discretion to

  2  grant or deny such relief.

  3         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1 of the

  4  year in which enacted.

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  7                       LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY

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      Removes an exception to sexual predator registration
  9    requirements which authorizes the court to remove the
      sexual predator designation upon petition by a sexual
10    predator who has not been arrested for at least 10 years
      following release.
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