Florida HB 931: Career Offender Registration

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A bill to be entitled 1
An act relating to career offender registration; 2
amending s. 322.141, F.S.; requiring a certain driver 3
license or identification marking for a career 4
offender; providing applicability; requiring a career 5
offender to report to the Department of Highway Safety 6
and Motor Vehicles in a certain month to obtain an 7
updated or renewed driver license or identification 8
card; amending s. 775.261, F.S.; providing and 9
revising definitions; providing that if a sanction is 10
not imposed upon a career offender, such offender is 11
deemed to have been released upon conviction; 12
requiring a career offender to report in person at the 13
sheriff's office for initial registration; revising 14
the time of such report; revising information and 15
documentation required upon initial registration; 16
specifying that information and documents are provided 17
to the Department of Law Enforcement through the 18
sheriff's office; specifying the manner in which 19
changes to a career offender's information must be 20
reported; requiring certain career offenders to report 21
to the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles 22
and obtain a driver license or identification card 23
containing a required marking within a certain period 24
of time; revising the information and documentation 25

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certain career offenders must provide to the 26
Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles when 27
reporting; requiring a career offender to report 28
changes to any information provided upon initial 29
registration within certain periods of time; requiring 30
the custodian of a jail to notify the Department of 31
Law Enforcement within a certain period of time if 32
such custodian has a career offender in his or her 33
custody and upon release of such offender; requiring 34
such custodian to take a digitized photograph of the 35
career offender and provide it to the Department of 36
Law Enforcement; requiring the custodian to notify the 37
Department of Law Enforcement if a career offender 38
escapes or dies; removing a provision relating to the 39
registration of a career offender at an office of the 40
Department of Law Enforcement; specifying the 41
procedure for a career offender to establish a 42
residence after initial registration; requiring the 43
Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to 44
forward photographs and certain information to the 45
Department of Law Enforcement and the Department of 46
Corrections; authorizing the Department of Highway 47
Safety and Motor Vehicles to release certain images to 48
the Department of Law Enforcement for purposes of 49
public notification; requiring that certain career 50

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offenders report changes to certain information to the 51
sheriff's office within a certain period of time; 52
requiring a career offender to report an in-state 53
travel residence within a certain period of time; 54
requiring a career offender who vacates a residence 55
and does not establish another residence to report 56
certain information in person within a certain period 57
of time; requiring a career offender who remains at an 58
address that such offender previously reported he or 59
she was vacating to report such information in person 60
within a certain period of time; requiring the 61
sheriff's office to report such information to the 62
Department of Law Enforcement; revising procedures for 63
establishing a residence outside this state; requiring 64
a career offender to report previously unknown travel 65
in person to the sheriff's office as soon as possible 66
before departure; revising the entities to which the 67
career offender must provide certain residence 68
information; requiring annual reregistration of career 69
offenders during a certain month; specifying 70
information that a career offender must provide upon 71
reregistration; requiring certain governmental 72
entities to verify certain career offender information 73
at least once per year; requiring local law 74
enforcement agencies to report to the Department of 75

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Law Enforcement failure by a career offender to comply 76
with registration requirements; providing that certain 77
career offenders shall be considered for removal of 78
registration requirements in certain circumstances; 79
revising the location in wh