Florida Senate - 2012                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1886
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                   Comm: WD            .                                
                  02/16/2012           .                                
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       The Committee on Criminal Justice (Margolis) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment 
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    3         Delete lines 71 - 74
    4  and insert:
    5         (d)1. Provides that a student not be arrested or otherwise
    6  referred to the juvenile justice or criminal justice system for
    7  acts of misconduct. However, the district school board may refer
    8  the following acts of misconduct to a law enforcement agency:
    9         a. Capital felonies;
   10         b. Life felonies;
   11         c. Felonies of the first degree;
   12         d. Felonies of the second or third degree which involve the
   13  use of a firearm, weapon, arson-making equipment, or explosives;
   14         e. Possession of a firearm or other deadly weapon when on
   15  school grounds, at a school function, or on school-sponsored
   16  transportation;
   17         f. Making a false report or threat related to explosives or
   18  weapons of mass destruction which involves a school, property of
   19  school personnel, school transportation, or a school-sponsored
   20  activity;
   21         g. Aggravated battery; and
   22         h. Delivering a controlled substance on school grounds.
   23         2. This paragraph does not limit a district school board’s
   24  authority to use other disciplinary consequences as appropriate
   25  to address school-based incidents.