HB 317

1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to threats; amending s. 836.10, F.S.;
3	prohibiting the communication of a threat to unlawfully do
4	physical harm to the person or property of another in the
5	course of committing an act of domestic violence;
6	providing criminal penalties; revising provisions relating
7	to the sending of or procuring the sending of letters or
8	inscribed communications containing certain threats of
9	death or bodily injury; 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.  Section 836.10, Florida Statutes, is amended to
14	read:
15	836.10  Written Threats to kill or do bodily injury;
16	punishment.--
17	(1)  Except as provided in subsection (2), any person who
18	communicates or causes to be communicated orally, in writing, or
19	through the use of electronic or other means a threat to
20	unlawfully do physical harm to the person or property of another
21	in the course of committing an act of domestic violence, as
22	defined in s. 741.28, commits a misdemeanor of the second
23	degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.
24	(2)  If Any person who writes or composes and also sends or
25	procures the sending of any letter or inscribed communication in
26	writing, or using electronic or other means, so written or
27	composed, whether such letter or communication be signed or
28	anonymous, to any person, containing a threat to kill or to
29	unlawfully do bodily injury to the person to whom such letter or
30	communication is sent, or a threat to kill or unlawfully do
31	bodily injury to any member of the family of the person to whom
32	such letter or communication is sent commits, the person so
33	writing or composing and so sending or procuring the sending of
34	such letter or communication, shall be guilty of a felony of the
35	second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083,
36	or s. 775.084.
37	Section 2.  This act shall take effect October 1, 2010.

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