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Proposed Florida Firearm Legislation S0728

  this is an anti-gun bill
Legislation Overview

Title: Threats

Description: Decreasing the criminal penalty for threatening to throw, project, place, or discharge any destructive device with intent to do bodily harm to any person or with intent to do damage to any property of any person; prohibiting threats to use a firearm or weapon with specified intent; providing criminal penalties; redefining the term "violence" to include incidents of cyberstalking, etc.

Session: 2020 Regular Session

Last Action: Died on Calendar

Last Action Date: March 14, 2020

Companion Bill: H311

Sponsors

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4 sponsors: Criminal Justice;Infrastructure and Security;Kelli Stargel (R); Travis Hutson (R);

Percentage of Senate sponsoring bill: 10% (4 of 40)

History
Chamber Date Action
House Mar 14, 2020 Died on Calendar
House Mar 14, 2020 Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
House Mar 10, 2020 Temporarily postponed, on 2nd Reading
House Mar 10, 2020 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/10/20
House Mar 9, 2020 Referred to Calendar
House Mar 9, 2020 Received
Senate Mar 6, 2020 CS passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0
House Mar 6, 2020 In Messages
Senate Mar 6, 2020 Read 3rd time
Senate Mar 5, 2020 Amendment(s) adopted (161760)
Senate Mar 5, 2020 Placed on 3rd reading
Senate Mar 5, 2020 Ordered engrossed
Senate Mar 5, 2020 Read 2nd time
Senate Mar 3, 2020 Favorable by- Appropriations; YEAS 21 NAYS 0
Senate Mar 3, 2020 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
Senate Mar 3, 2020 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/05/20
Senate Feb 27, 2020 On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 03/03/20, 1:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
Senate Feb 10, 2020 Now in Appropriations
Senate Feb 6, 2020 CS/CS by Criminal Justice read 1st time
Senate Feb 5, 2020 Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
Senate Feb 4, 2020 CS/CS by Criminal Justice; YEAS 5 NAYS 0
Senate Jan 30, 2020 On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 02/04/20, 9:00 am, 37 Senate Building
Senate Jan 23, 2020 On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 01/28/20, 1:30 pm, 37 Senate Building --Amendment(s) Adopted - Temporarily Postponed
Senate Jan 22, 2020 CS by Infrastructure and Security read 1st time
Senate Jan 16, 2020 Now in Criminal Justice
Senate Jan 15, 2020 Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
Senate Jan 14, 2020 Introduced
Senate Jan 13, 2020 CS by Infrastructure and Security; YEAS 7 NAYS 0
Senate Jan 6, 2020 On Committee agenda-- Infrastructure and Security, 01/13/20, 3:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
Senate Nov 21, 2019 Referred to Infrastructure and Security; Criminal Justice; Appropriations
Senate Nov 1, 2019 Filed
Texts
Type Date State Link Text
Engrossed Mar 5, 2020 state link bill text
Comm Sub Feb 5, 2020 state link bill text
Comm Sub Jan 15, 2020 state link bill text
Introduced Nov 1, 2019 state link bill text
Amendments
Title Description Date State Link Text Adopted
Senate Committee Amendment #402684 to Amendment (651314) Jan 13, 2020 State Link amendment text No
Senate Committee Amendment #651314 Jan 10, 2020 State Link amendment text No
Senate Committee Amendment #728976 Jan 10, 2020 State Link amendment text No
Votes - Click on description to view vote roll call
Description Vote Date Yea Votes Nay Votes No Votes Absent Passed
03/6/2020 39 0 1 0 Yes
  • Albritton, Ben (R) Yea
  • Baxley, Dennis (R) Yea
  • Bean, Aaron (R) Yea
  • Benacquisto, Lizbeth (R) Yea
  • Berman, Lori (D) Yea
  • Book, Lauren (D) Yea
  • Bracy, Randolph (D) Yea
  • Bradley, Rob (R) Yea
  • Brandes, Jeffrey (R) Yea
  • Braynon, Oscar (D) Yea
  • Broxson, Douglas (R) Yea
  • Cruz, Janet (D) Yea
  • Diaz, Manny (R) Yea
  • Farmer, Gary (D) Yea
  • Flores, Anitere (R) Yea
  • Gainer, George (R) Yea
  • Galvano, Bill (R) Yea
  • Gibson, Audrey (D) Yea
  • Gruters, Joe (R) Yea
  • Harrell, Gayle (R) Yea
  • Hooper, Ed (R) Yea
  • Hutson, Travis (R) Yea
  • Lee, Tom (R) NV
  • Mayfield, Debbie (R) Yea
  • Montford, Bill (D) Yea
  • Passidomo, Kathleen (R) Yea
  • Perry, Keith (R) Yea
  • Pizzo, Jason (D) Yea
  • Powell, Bobby (D) Yea
  • Rader, Kevin (D) Yea
  • Rodriguez, Jose (D) Yea
  • Rouson, Darryl (D) Yea
  • Simmons, David (R) Yea
  • Simpson, Wilton (R) Yea
  • Stargel, Kelli (R) Yea
  • Stewart, Linda (D) Yea
  • Taddeo, Annette (R) Yea
  • Thurston, Perry (D) Yea
  • Torres, Victor (D) Yea
  • Wright, Tommy (R) Yea
resort votes by: party yeas nays name

Link: link to state bill page

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