Bill Text: FL S0858 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

Florida Senate Bill 858 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Knowingly and Willfully Giving False Information to a Law Enforcement Officer

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-08 - Laid on Table, refer to CS/HB 37 -SJ 998 [S0858 Detail]

Download: Florida-2012-S0858-Introduced.html

       Florida Senate - 2012                                     SB 858
       
       
       
       By Senator Negron
       
       
       
       
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    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to knowingly and willfully giving
    3         false information to a law enforcement officer;
    4         amending s. 837.055, F.S.; providing that it is a
    5         third-degree felony for a person to knowingly and
    6         willfully give false information to a law enforcement
    7         officer conducting a missing person investigation
    8         involving a child 16 years of age or younger with the
    9         intent to mislead the officer or impede the
   10         investigation if the child suffers great bodily harm,
   11         permanent disability, permanent disfigurement, or
   12         death; providing criminal penalties; providing an
   13         effective date.
   14  
   15  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   16  
   17         Section 1. Section 837.055, Florida Statutes, is amended to
   18  read:
   19         837.055 False information to law enforcement during
   20  investigation.—
   21         (1) Whoever knowingly and willfully gives false information
   22  to a law enforcement officer who is conducting a missing person
   23  investigation or a felony criminal investigation with the intent
   24  to mislead the officer or impede the investigation commits a
   25  misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s.
   26  775.082 or s. 775.083.
   27         (2) Whoever knowingly and willfully gives false information
   28  to a law enforcement officer who is conducting a missing person
   29  investigation involving a child 16 years of age or younger with
   30  the intent to mislead the officer or impede the investigation
   31  and the child who is the subject of the investigation suffers
   32  great bodily harm, permanent disability, permanent
   33  disfigurement, or death commits a felony of the third degree,
   34  punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.
   35         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2012.