Florida Senate - 2017                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 790
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  03/13/2017           .                                
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       The Committee on Criminal Justice (Brandes) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 120 - 153
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 2. Paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section
    6  948.01, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         948.01 When court may place defendant on probation or into
    8  community control.—
    9         (1) Any state court having original jurisdiction of
   10  criminal actions may at a time to be determined by the court,
   11  with or without an adjudication of the guilt of the defendant,
   12  hear and determine the question of the probation of a defendant
   13  in a criminal case, except for an offense punishable by death,
   14  who has been found guilty by the verdict of a jury, has entered
   15  a plea of guilty or a plea of nolo contendere, or has been found
   16  guilty by the court trying the case without a jury.
   17         (b) The department, in consultation with the Office of the
   18  State Courts Administrator, shall revise and make available
   19  develop and disseminate to the courts uniform order of
   20  supervision forms by July 1 of each year or as necessary. The
   21  courts shall use the uniform order of supervision forms provided
   22  by the department for all persons placed on community
   23  supervision.
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   26  And the title is amended as follows:
   27         Delete lines 5 - 7.