Florida Senate - 2024                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1036
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                   Comm: RS            .                                
                  02/28/2024           .                                
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       The Committee on Fiscal Policy (Ingoglia) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete lines 26 - 39
    4  and insert:
    5  proceeding under federal or state law.
    6         (2) A person who has been deported or removed from the
    7  United States under federal immigration proceedings, or has
    8  departed the United States while such an order of deportation or
    9  removal is outstanding, shall have the penalty for committing a
   10  felony after unlawfully reentering the United States
   11  reclassified in the following manner:
   12         (a) A felony of the third degree is reclassified to a
   13  felony of the second degree.
   14         (b) A felony of the second degree is reclassified to a
   15  felony of the first degree.
   16         (c) A felony of the first degree is reclassified to a life
   17  felony.
   18         (3) Any record of the United States Department of Homeland
   19  Security, the United States Executive Office for Immigration
   20  Review, or the United States Citizenship and Immigration
   21  Services concerning the legal status of a person, including, but
   22  not limited to, any conviction, deportation, removal, or reentry
   23  order or document, is presumed to be prima facie genuine, and
   24  must be received as evidence in all courts of this state without
   25  further authentication, provided it bears the signature, name,
   26  and title of an officer of the United States.
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   29  And the title is amended as follows:
   30         Delete lines 5 - 12
   31  and insert:
   32         penalty for the commission of a felony committed by a
   33         person who unlawfully reenters the United States, and
   34         while remaining unlawfully present, after having been
   35         deported or removed from the United States under
   36         federal immigration proceedings, or who has departed
   37         the United States while such an order of deportation
   38         or removal was outstanding; specifying that any record
   39         of specified federal entities concerning the legal
   40         status of a person is presumed to be prima facie
   41         genuine and must be received as evidence in all courts
   42         of this state without further authentication under
   43         certain circumstances; creating s. 908.12, F.S.;
   44         defining the