| 1 | Representative Scionti offered the following: |
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| 3 | Amendment (with title amendment) |
| 4 | Remove everything after the enacting clause and insert: |
| 5 | Section 1. Section 776.051, Florida Statutes, is amended |
| 6 | to read: |
| 7 | 776.051 Use of force in resisting arrest or making an |
| 8 | arrest or in the execution of a legal duty; prohibition.-- |
| 9 | (1) A person is not justified in the use of force to |
| 10 | resist an arrest by a law enforcement officer, or to resist a |
| 11 | law enforcement officer who is engaged in the execution of a |
| 12 | legal duty, if the law enforcement officer was acting in good |
| 13 | faith and he or she who is known, or reasonably appears, to be a |
| 14 | law enforcement officer. |
| 15 | (2) A law enforcement officer, or any person whom the |
| 16 | officer has summoned or directed to assist him or her, is not |
| 17 | justified in the use of force if the arrest or execution of a |
| 18 | legal duty is unlawful and known by him or her to be unlawful. |
| 19 | Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2008. |
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| 22 | T I T L E A M E N D M E N T |
| 23 | Remove the entire title and insert: |
| 24 | A bill to be entitled |
| 25 | An act relating to offenses against officers; amending s. |
| 26 | 776.051, F.S.; providing that a person is not justified in |
| 27 | using force to resist an arrest by a law enforcement |
| 28 | officer, or to resist a law enforcement officer engaged in |
| 29 | executing a legal duty, if the officer acts in good faith |
| 30 | and is known or appears to be a law enforcement officer; |
| 31 | providing an effective date. |