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Senate Bill 0526
    Florida Senate - 1998                                   SB 526

    By Senator Campbell





    33-558-98

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to protective services for

  3         victims and witnesses; amending s. 914.25,

  4         F.S.; redefining the term "serious felony

  5         offense" to include an attempt, solicitation,

  6         or conspiracy to commit certain offenses for

  7         purposes of provisions that authorize law

  8         enforcement agencies to protect victims and

  9         witnesses who are at risk of harm; providing an

10         effective date.

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

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14         Section 1.  Subsection (1) of section 914.25, Florida

15  Statutes, is amended to read:

16         914.25  Protective services for certain victims and

17  witnesses.--

18         (1)  For purposes of this section, the term:

19         (a)  A "Victim or witness at risk of harm" means a

20  victim or witness who, as a result of cooperating in an

21  investigation or prosecution of a serious felony offense, has

22  been subjected to violence or other forms of intimidation, or

23  who is the subject of a substantial threat to commit violence.

24  The term also includes a member of the victim's or witness's

25  immediate family.

26         (b)  "Serious felony offense" means one of the

27  following offenses, including an attempt, solicitation, or

28  conspiracy to commit one of the following offenses: murder,

29  manslaughter, sexual battery, aggravated stalking, aggravated

30  battery, carjacking, home invasion robbery, burglary, arson,

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    Florida Senate - 1998                                   SB 526
    33-558-98




  1  robbery, kidnapping, racketeering, or trafficking in a

  2  controlled substance.

  3         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

  4  law.

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  7                          SENATE SUMMARY

  8    Provides for a victim or witness to be provided
      protection if the victim or witness is at risk of harm
  9    following an attempt, solicitation, or conspiracy to
      commit certain serious felony offenses.
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