Bill Text: FL H1435 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: 911 Calls

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-07 - Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration [H1435 Detail]

Download: Florida-2011-H1435-Introduced.html

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HB 1435

1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to 911 calls; prohibiting the publication
3	or broadcast of recordings of calls to 911 emergency
4	services made by minors; prohibiting the publication or
5	broadcast of recordings of such calls made by adults
6	unless the voices of all persons recorded are obscured or
7	masked so as to render the persons recorded
8	unidentifiable; providing construction; providing criminal
9	penalties; 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.  Publishing or broadcasting certain recordings
14	of 911 calls.-
15	(1)  A person may not publish or broadcast, or cause or
16	allow to be published or broadcast, through any means of mass
17	communication, including, but not limited to, radio, television,
18	and the Internet, a recording of a call to a telephone emergency
19	service such as "911":
20	(a)  Made by a minor.
21	(b)  Made by an adult unless the voices of all persons
22	recorded are obscured or masked so as to render the persons
23	recorded unidentifiable.
24	(2)  This section may not be construed to abridge the
25	rights of any person that are protected by the First Amendment
26	to the Constitution of the United States or s. 4, Art. I of the
27	State Constitution.
28	(3)  Any person who violates this section commits a
29	misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable as provided in s.
30	775.082 or s. 775.083, Florida Statutes.
31	Section 2.  This act shall take effect October 1, 2011.

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