Florida Senate - 2009                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 412
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  04/15/2009           .                                
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       The Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice Appropriations
       (Crist) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with directory and title amendments)
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    3         Between lines 382 and 383
    4  insert:
    5         (13) Whenever a law enforcement officer determines upon
    6  probable cause that an act of dating violence has been committed
    7  within the jurisdiction, or that a person has violated a
    8  condition of pretrial release as provided in s. 903.047 and the
    9  original arrest was for an act of dating violence, the officer
   10  may arrest the person or persons suspected of its commission and
   11  charge such person or persons with the appropriate crime. The
   12  decision to arrest and charge shall not require consent of the
   13  victim or consideration of the relationship of the parties.
   14         Section 9. Subsection (13) of section 901.15, Florida
   15  Statutes, is amended to read:
   16         901.15 When arrest by officer without warrant is lawful.—A
   17  law enforcement officer may arrest a person without a warrant
   18  when:
   19         (13) There is probable cause to believe that the person has
   20  committed an act that violates a condition of pretrial release
   21  provided in s. 903.047 when the original arrest was for an act
   22  of domestic violence as defined in s. 741.28, or when the
   23  original arrest was for an act of dating violence as defined in
   24  s. 784.046.
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   27         And the directory clause is amended as follows:
   28         Delete lines 340 - 341
   29  and insert:
   30         Section 8. Paragraph (a) of subsection (8) and subsection
   31  (13) of section 784.046, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
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   34         And the title is amended as follows:
   35         Delete line 44
   36  and insert:
   37         certified copies; authorizing a law enforcement
   38         officer to arrest a person suspected of violating a
   39         condition of pretrial release if the original arrest
   40         was for an act of dating violence; amending s. 901.15,
   41         F.S.; conforming provisions to changes made by the
   42         act; providing an effective date.