Senate Bill 466 (2024) — Victims of criminal offenses
SB 466
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Florida Senate - 2024 SB By Senator Book 35-00410A-24 2024466__ CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions. A bill to be entitled
An act relating to victims of criminal offenses; 2 amending s. 960.001, F.S.; providing that private counsel retained by a sexual offense victim may be present during victim depositions; providing that results of a toxicology screening of a sexual assault victim may not be used to prosecute the victim for certain offenses; providing an effective date. 8
Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 10
Section 1. Paragraph
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q) of subsection (1) of
section 12 960.001, Florida Statutes, is amended, and paragraph
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x) is added to that subsection, to read: 14 960.001 Guidelines for fair treatment of victims and witnesses in the criminal justice and juvenile justice systems.— 16
(1) The Department of Legal Affairs, the state attorneys, 17 the Department of Corrections, the Department of Juvenile Justice, the Florida Commission on Offender Review, the State Courts Administrator and circuit court administrators, the Department of Law Enforcement, and every sheriff’s department, 21 police department, or other law enforcement agency as defined in s. 943.10(4) shall develop and implement guidelines for the use of their respective agencies, which guidelines are consistent with the purposes of this act and s. 16(b), Art. I of the State Constitution and are designed to implement s. 16(b), Art. I of the State Constitution and to achieve the following objectives: 27
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x) Immunity for victims from prosecution for certain misdemeanors predicated on toxicology screening results.—The results of a toxicology screening conducted on a victim in conjunction with a sexual assault forensic examination or upon a report of a sexual offense may not be used to prosecute the victim for a misdemeanor violation of
chapter 893. 47