Florida Senate - 2025                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1450
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  04/01/2025           .                                
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       The Committee on Criminal Justice (Burgess) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Section 901.1501, Florida Statutes, is created
    6  to read:
    7         901.1501 Immediate arrest of a person with a significant
    8  medical condition.—
    9         (1) As used in this section, the term “person with a
   10  significant medical condition” means a person who is a patient
   11  or resident of a hospital licensed under chapter 395, a nursing
   12  home facility licensed under part II of chapter 400, or an
   13  assisted living facility licensed under part I of chapter 429.
   14         (2) In determining whether to make an immediate arrest of a
   15  person with a significant medical condition, including an arrest
   16  for an offense committed against an elderly person or a disabled
   17  adult, a law enforcement officer may use his or her discretion
   18  based on the totality of the circumstances, including
   19  consideration of whether the person is a current or continued
   20  threat to public safety or himself or herself or a flight risk,
   21  and may consider all available lawful methods of making an
   22  arrest, including seeking an arrest warrant under s. 901.02.
   23         (3) This section does not prohibit a law enforcement
   24  officer from arresting a person without a warrant under s.
   25  901.15, or making such an arrest by any lawful method.
   26         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.
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   29  And the title is amended as follows:
   30         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   31  and insert:
   32                        A bill to be entitled                      
   33         An act relating to arrest and detention of individuals
   34         with significant medical conditions; creating s.
   35         901.1501, F.S.; defining the term “person with a
   36         significant medical condition”; providing that a law
   37         enforcement officer may use his or her discretion in
   38         determining whether to make an immediate arrest of
   39         such person; providing construction; providing an
   40         effective date.