Bill Text: FL H0317 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced
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Bill Title: Threats [SPSC]
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Passed) 2010-05-11 - Approved by Governor; Chapter No. 2010-51 [H0317 Detail]
Download: Florida-2010-H0317-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Threats [SPSC]
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Passed) 2010-05-11 - Approved by Governor; Chapter No. 2010-51 [H0317 Detail]
Download: Florida-2010-H0317-Introduced.html
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2 | An act relating to threats; amending s. 836.10, F.S.; |
3 | prohibiting the communication of a threat to unlawfully do |
4 | physical harm to the person or property of another in the |
5 | course of committing an act of domestic violence; |
6 | providing criminal penalties; revising provisions relating |
7 | to the sending of or procuring the sending of letters or |
8 | inscribed communications containing certain threats of |
9 | death or bodily injury; providing an effective date. |
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11 | Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: |
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13 | Section 1. Section 836.10, Florida Statutes, is amended to |
14 | read: |
15 | 836.10 |
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17 | (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), any person who |
18 | communicates or causes to be communicated orally, in writing, or |
19 | through the use of electronic or other means a threat to |
20 | unlawfully do physical harm to the person or property of another |
21 | in the course of committing an act of domestic violence, as |
22 | defined in s. 741.28, commits a misdemeanor of the second |
23 | degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083. |
24 | (2) |
25 | procures the sending of any letter or inscribed communication in |
26 | writing, or using electronic or other means, |
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28 | anonymous, to any person, containing a threat to kill or to |
29 | unlawfully do bodily injury to the person to whom such letter or |
30 | communication is sent, or a threat to kill or unlawfully do |
31 | bodily injury to any member of the family of the person to whom |
32 | such letter or communication is sent commits |
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35 | second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, |
36 | or s. 775.084. |
37 | Section 2. This act shall take effect October 1, 2010. |
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