Florida Senate Bill 940 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: Failed on March 14 2020 - 100% progression
Action: 2020-03-14 - Died in Criminal Justice
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Expanding grounds for the reclassification of crimes to include prejudice based on the gender or gender identity of any person; specifying that the reclassification occurs if the crime was based in whole or in part on the race, color, ancestry, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, homeless status, advanced age, gender, or gender identity of any person; specifying that the reclassification of a certain crime occurs if the crime was based in whole or in part on a disability of any person, etc.

Crimes Evidencing Prejudice

Sen. Kevin Rader [D]

Sen. Jason Pizzo [D]

Sen. Darryl Rouson [D]

Sen. Lori Berman [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-03-14	Senate	Died in Criminal Justice
2020-03-14	Senate	Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
2020-01-14	Senate	Introduced
2019-12-13	Senate	Referred to Criminal Justice; Judiciary; Rules
2019-11-14	Senate	Filed

H655 (Similar To) 2020-03-14 - Died in Criminal Justice Subcommittee

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
775	085		Amended Code	See Bill Text
775	0863		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/940
Text	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/940/BillText/Filed/HTML