17 total bills, 7 anti-gun bills,
3 pro-gun bills for this session
Proposed Florida Firearm Legislation
17 total bills, 7 anti-gun bills,
3 pro-gun bills for this session
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note: Florida does not carry over legislation from session to session
Title: Mental Health Services in the Criminal Justice System
Description: Expanding eligibility for military veterans and servicemembers court programs; authorizing the creation of treatment-based mental health court programs; creating the Forensic Hospital Diversion Pilot Program; authorizing courts to order certain offenders on probation or community control to postadjudicatory mental health court programs, etc.
Last Action: Chapter No. 2016-127, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/SB 12 (Ch. 2016-241)
Last Action Date: March 28, 2016
Title: Firearm Violence
Description: Increases criminal penalties for violations involving possession of firearm or ammunition when person is subject to specified injunction; provides for temporary custody of firearms by law enforcement officer at scene of domestic violence incident; provides for return of firearms after specified period.
Last Action: Died in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Last Action Date: March 11, 2016
Title: Purchase of Personal Firearms by Qualified Law Enforcement Officers
Description: Proposes amendments to State Constitution to remove restrictions on purchase of personal firearms by qualified law enforcement officers.
Last Action: Died in Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: March 11, 2016
Title: Exception to Waiting Period for Purchasing and Delivering Handguns
Description: Exempts purchase of handguns by qualified law enforcement officers or qualified retired law enforcement officers from 3-day waiting period.
Last Action: Died in Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: March 11, 2016
Title: Concealed Weapons and Firearms
Description: Revises areas of airport where person is prohibited from openly carrying handgun or from carrying concealed weapon or firearm.
Last Action: Died in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Last Action Date: March 11, 2016
Title: School Safety
Description: Removes provision prohibiting concealed carry licensees from openly carrying handgun or carrying concealed weapon or firearm into elementary or secondary school facility or administration building.
Last Action: Died in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Last Action Date: March 11, 2016
Title: Mental Health and Substance Abuse
Description: Requires information about child's suitability for residential treatment to be provided to additional recipient; prohibits court from ordering person with traumatic brain injury or dementia who lacks co-occurring mental illness to be involuntarily placed in state treatment facility; directs DCF to create grant review & selection committee; authorizes designated not-for-profit community provider or managing entity to apply for certain grants; requires AHCA & DCF to develop plan to obtain federal approval for increasing availability of federal Medicaid funding for behavioral health care; provides specified elements in, & requires plans for phased enhancement of, coordinated behavioral health system of care; requires DCF to develop, implement, & maintain standards & protocols for collection of utilization data for addictions receiving facility & detoxification services provided through department funding; prohibits court from charging fee for filing of petitions for involuntary assessment & stabilization & involuntary treatment; provides appropriation.
Last Action: Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/HB 373 (Ch. 2016-80), CS/SB 12 (Ch. 2016-241)
Last Action Date: March 4, 2016
Title: Mental Health and Substance Abuse
Description: Including services provided to treatment-based mental health programs within case management funded from state revenues as an element of the state courts system; requiring assessment findings to be provided to the plan that is financially responsible for a child's care in residential treatment under certain circumstances; specifying certain persons who are prohibited from being appointed as a person's guardian advocate; authorizing a court to make a determination of involuntary outpatient services, etc.
Last Action: Chapter No. 2016-241, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/HB 373 (Ch. 2016-80), CS/CS/CS/HB 439 (Ch. 2016-127), HB 5101 (Ch. 2016-65)
Last Action Date: April 15, 2016
Title: Threatening Violence Using a Firearm
Description: Prohibiting a person from threatening to use a firearm in a violent manner against another person, etc.
Last Action: Withdrawn prior to introduction
Last Action Date: December 5, 2016
Title: Expunction of Records of Minors
Description: Creating an exception for specified minors who, before attaining 21 years of age, had a criminal history record expunged; authorizing specified minors to apply for expunction of a criminal history record under certain circumstances; deleting a limitation on the period of time within which a minor must submit an application for prearrest or postarrest diversion expunction to the Department of Law Enforcement after successful completion of the diversion program, etc.
Last Action: Chapter No. 2016-42
Last Action Date: March 10, 2016
Title: Crime of Making Threats of Terror or Violence
Description: Creating the crime of falsely reporting the use of firearms in a violent manner against a person or persons; defining the terms "family member of a person" and "law enforcement officer", etc.
Last Action: Chapter No. 2016-156
Last Action Date: March 31, 2016
Title: Mental Health Services in the Criminal Justice System
Description: Defining the terms "court" and "criminal county court" for purposes of involuntary outpatient placement; expanding eligibility for military veterans and servicemembers court programs; creating the Forensic Hospital Diversion Pilot Program; providing for courts to order certain defendants on probation or community control to postadjudicatory mental health court programs, etc.
Last Action: Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/CS/HB 439 (Ch. 2016-127), CS/SB 12 (Ch. 2016-241)
Last Action Date: March 8, 2016
Title: Public Records/Records Concerning Firearms Relinquished Pursuant to Protective Injunctions
Description: Exempting records containing identifying information of the respondent, petitioner, or recipient of firearms relinquished pursuant to provisions relating to injunctions against domestic violence, stalking, or cyberstalking; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemptions; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.
Last Action: Died in Criminal Justice
Last Action Date: March 11, 2016
Title: Relinquishment of Weapons by Persons Subject to Protective Injunctions
Description: Requiring injunction respondents to relinquish firearms; providing for relinquishment to law enforcement officers or licensed firearms dealers, etc.
Last Action: Died in Criminal Justice
Last Action Date: March 11, 2016
Title: Firearm Violence
Description: Increasing criminal penalties for violations involving possession of a firearm or ammunition when a person is subject to a specified injunction; providing for temporary custody of firearms by a law enforcement officer at the scene of a domestic violence incident; providing for return of firearms after a specified period, etc.
Last Action: Died in Criminal Justice
Last Action Date: March 11, 2016
Title: Concealed Weapons and Firearms
Description: Revising the areas of an airport where a person is prohibited from openly carrying a handgun or from carrying a concealed weapon or firearm, etc.
Last Action: Died in Judiciary
Last Action Date: March 11, 2016
Title: Penalties and Fees
Description: Revising requirements relating to the payment of court-related fines or other monetary penalties, fees, charges, and costs; requiring traffic citation forms to include certain language relating to payment of a penalty; requiring a court to inquire regarding a person's ability to pay at the time a certain civil penalty is ordered; decreasing the period for revocation or suspension of, or delay of eligibility for, driver licenses or driving privileges for certain persons convicted of certain drug offenses, etc.
Last Action: Died in Appropriations
Last Action Date: March 11, 2016
