Florida SB 156: Early Childhood Music Education Incentive Pilot Program

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Criminal Offenses Against Law Enforcement Officers and Other Personnel 
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Citing this act as the "Officer Jason Raynor Act"; revising a prohibition on the use or threatened use of force to resist arrest or detention; providing for enhanced punishment for manslaughter when committed against specified officers; revising provisions concerning assault or battery upon specified officers and other personnel; revising a provision concerning resisting, obstructing, or opposing specified officers or legally authorized persons, etc. 
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 2 An act relating to criminal offenses against law 
 3 enforcement officers and other personnel; providing a 
 4 short title; amending s. 776.051, F.S.; revising a 
 5 prohibition on the use or threatened use of force to 
 6 resist arrest or detention; defining the term “acting 
 7 in good faith”; amending s. 782.065, F.S.; providing 
 8 for enhanced punishment for manslaughter when 
 9 committed against specified officers; revising 
 10 applicability; amending s. 784.07, F.S.; revising the 
 11 definition of the term “law enforcement officer”; 
 12 revising provisions concerning assault or battery upon 
 13 specified officers and other personnel; amending s. 
 14 843.01, F.S.; revising a provision concerning 
 15 resisting, obstructing, or opposing specified officers 
 16 or legally authorized persons; amending s. 921.0022, 
 17 F.S.; increasing the level on the offense severity 
 18 ranking chart for committing battery on law 
 19 enforcement officers and other specified personnel; 
 20 providing an effective date. 
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 22 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
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 24 Section 1. This act may be cited as the “Officer Jason 
 25 Raynor Act.” 
 26 Section 2. Section 776.051, Florida Statutes, is amended to 
 27 read: 
 28 776.051 Use or threatened use of force in resisting arrest 
 29 or detention making an arrest or in the execution of a legal 
 30 duty; prohibition.— 
 31 (1) A person is not justified in the use or threatened use 
 32 of force to resist any an arrest or detention by a law 
 33 enforcement officer, or to resist a law enforcement officer who 
 34 is engaged in the performance of his or her official duties as 
 35 described in s. 943.10(1) execution of a legal duty, if the law 
 36 enforcement officer was acting in good faith and he or she is 
 37 known, or reasonably appears, to be a law enforcement officer. 
 38 As used in this section, the term “acting in good faith” means 
 39 to make sincere and reasonable efforts to comply with legal 
 40 requirements, even if the arrest, detention, or other act is 
 41 later found to have been unlawful 
 42 (2) A law enforcement officer, or any person whom the 
 43 officer has summoned or directed to assist him or her, is not 
 44 justified in the use of force if the arrest or execution of a 
 45 legal duty is unlawful and known by him or her to be unlawful. 
 46 Section 3. Section 782.065, Florida Statutes, is amended to 
 47 read: 
 48 782.065 Murder; law enforcement officer, correctional 
 49 officer, correctional probation officer.—Notwithstanding ss. 
 50 775.082, 775.0823, 782.04, 782.051, and chapter 921, a defendant 
 51 must shall be sentenced to life imprisonment without eligibility 
 52 for release upon findings by the trier of fact that, beyond a 
 53 reasonable doubt: 
 54 (1) The defendant committed murder in the first degree in 
 55 violation of s. 782.04(1) and a death sentence was not imposed; 
 56 murder in the second or third degree in violation of s. 
 57 782.04(2), (3), or (4); attempted murder in the first or second 
 58 degree in violation of s. 782.04(1)(a)1. or (2); or attempted 
 59 felony murder in violation of s. 782.051; or manslaughter in 
 60 violation of s. 782.07(1); and 
 61 (2) The victim of any offense described in subsection (1) 
 62 was a law enforcement officer, part-time law enforcement 
 63 officer, auxiliary law enforcement officer, correctional 
 64 officer, part-time correctional officer, auxiliary correctional 
 65 officer, correctional probation officer, part-time correctional 
 66 probation officer, or auxiliary correctional probation officer, 
 67 as those terms are defined in s. 943.10, who was engaged in the 
 68 performance of his or her official duties as described in s. 
 69 943.10 lawful performance of a legal duty. 
 70 Section 4. Paragraph (e) of subsection (1) and subsection 
 71 (2) of section 784.07, Florida Statutes, are amended to read: 
 72 784.07 Assault or battery of law enforcement officers and 
 73 other specified personnel; reclassification of offenses; minimum 
 74 sentences.— 
 75 (1) As used in this section, the term: 
 76 (e) “Law enforcement officer” includes a law enforcement 
 77 officer, a correctional officer, a correctional probation 
 78 officer, a part-time law enforcement officer, a