Florida Senate - 2013                               CS for SB 86
       
       
       
       By the Committee on Education; and Senators Flores and
       Benacquisto
       
       
       
       581-01707-13                                            201386c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to the distribution of materials
    3         harmful to minors; amending s. 847.012, F.S.;
    4         prohibiting an adult from knowingly distributing to a
    5         minor or posting on school property certain specified
    6         materials harmful to minors; providing that it is a
    7         third-degree felony for any person to knowingly
    8         distribute to a minor or post on school property
    9         certain materials harmful to minors; defining the term
   10         “school property”; providing an exception; providing
   11         an effective date.
   12  
   13  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   14  
   15         Section 1. Present subsections (5) through (9) of section
   16  847.012, Florida Statutes, are renumbered as subsections (6)
   17  through (10), respectively, and a new subsection (5) is added to
   18  that section, to read:
   19         847.012 Harmful materials; sale or distribution to minors
   20  or using minors in production prohibited; penalty.—
   21         (5) An adult may not knowingly distribute to a minor on
   22  school property, or post on school property, any material
   23  described in subsection (3). As used in this subsection, the
   24  term “school property” means the grounds or facility of any
   25  kindergarten, elementary school, middle school, junior high
   26  school, or secondary school, whether public or nonpublic. This
   27  subsection does not apply to the distribution or posting of
   28  instructional materials that by design serve as a major tool for
   29  assisting in the instruction of a subject or course by school
   30  officers, instructional personnel, administrative personnel,
   31  school volunteers, educational support employees, or managers as
   32  those terms are defined in s. 1012.01.
   33         Section 2. This act shall take effect October 1, 2013.