Florida Senate - 2015                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1444
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  04/02/2015           .                                
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       Appropriations Subcommittee on General Government (Simpson)
       recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 917 and 918
    4  insert:
    5         Section 21. Subsection (4) is added to section 790.15,
    6  Florida Statutes, to read:
    7         790.15 Discharging firearm in public or on residential
    8  property.—
    9         (4) Any person recreationally discharging a firearm
   10  outdoors, including target shooting or celebratory shooting, in
   11  an area that the person knows or reasonably should know is
   12  primarily residential in nature and that has a residential
   13  density of one or more dwelling units per acre, commits a
   14  misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s.
   15  775.082 or s. 775.083. This subsection does not apply:
   16         (a) To a person lawfully defending life or property or
   17  performing official duties requiring the discharge of a firearm;
   18  or
   19         (b) If, under the circumstances, the discharge does not
   20  pose a reasonably foreseeable risk to life, safety, or property.
   21  
   22  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   23  And the title is amended as follows:
   24         Delete line 108
   25  and insert:
   26         licenses; amending s. 790.15, F.S.; prohibiting the
   27         recreational discharge of a firearm in certain
   28         residential areas; providing criminal penalties;
   29         providing exceptions; providing an effective date.