Florida Senate - 2012                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 964
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  02/10/2012           .                                
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       The Committee on Children, Families, and Elder Affairs (Detert)
       recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 167 and 168
    4  insert:
    5  
    6         Section 5. Paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section
    7  944.606, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
    8         944.606 Sexual offenders; notification upon release.—
    9         (1) As used in this section:
   10         (b) “Sexual offender” means a person who has been convicted
   11  of committing, or attempting, soliciting, or conspiring to
   12  commit, any of the criminal offenses proscribed in the following
   13  statutes in this state or similar offenses in another
   14  jurisdiction: s. 787.01, s. 787.02, or s. 787.025(2)(c), where
   15  the victim is a minor and the defendant is not the victim’s
   16  parent or guardian; s. 794.011, excluding s. 794.011(10); s.
   17  794.05; s. 796.03; s. 796.035; s. 800.04; s. 810.145(8); s.
   18  825.1025; s. 827.071; s. 847.0133; s. 847.0135, excluding s.
   19  847.0135(6); s. 847.0137; s. 847.0138; s. 847.0145; or s.
   20  985.701(1); or any similar offense committed in this state which
   21  has been redesignated from a former statute number to one of
   22  those listed in this subsection, when the department has
   23  received verified information regarding such conviction; an
   24  offender’s computerized criminal history record is not, in and
   25  of itself, verified information.
   26         Section 6. Paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section
   27  944.607, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   28         944.607 Notification to Department of Law Enforcement of
   29  information on sexual offenders.—
   30         (1) As used in this section, the term:
   31         (a) “Sexual offender” means a person who is in the custody
   32  or control of, or under the supervision of, the department or is
   33  in the custody of a private correctional facility:
   34         1. On or after October 1, 1997, as a result of a conviction
   35  for committing, or attempting, soliciting, or conspiring to
   36  commit, any of the criminal offenses proscribed in the following
   37  statutes in this state or similar offenses in another
   38  jurisdiction: s. 787.01, s. 787.02, or s. 787.025(2)(c), where
   39  the victim is a minor and the defendant is not the victim’s
   40  parent or guardian; s. 794.011, excluding s. 794.011(10); s.
   41  794.05; s. 796.03; s. 796.035; s. 800.04; s. 810.145(8); s.
   42  825.1025; s. 827.071; s. 847.0133; s. 847.0135, excluding s.
   43  847.0135(6); s. 847.0137; s. 847.0138; s. 847.0145; or s.
   44  985.701(1); or any similar offense committed in this state which
   45  has been redesignated from a former statute number to one of
   46  those listed in this paragraph; or
   47         2. Who establishes or maintains a residence in this state
   48  and who has not been designated as a sexual predator by a court
   49  of this state but who has been designated as a sexual predator,
   50  as a sexually violent predator, or by another sexual offender
   51  designation in another state or jurisdiction and was, as a
   52  result of such designation, subjected to registration or
   53  community or public notification, or both, or would be if the
   54  person were a resident of that state or jurisdiction, without
   55  regard as to whether the person otherwise meets the criteria for
   56  registration as a sexual offender.
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   58  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   59  And the title is amended as follows:
   60  
   61         Delete line 14
   62  and insert:
   63  
   64         was a minor; amending ss. 944.607 and 944.607, F.S.;
   65         redefining the term “sexual offender;” amending s.
   66         810.145, F.S.; revising the