UPDATE 3- Senate Bill 234-Video of Rules Committee Meeting
Watch video of Senate Rules Committee meeting in which SB 234 was on the agenda, and despite numerous objections, the bill passed the Rules Committee. You can watch the video here, starting at 1:19.
https://www.flsenate.gov/media/videoplayer?EventID=1_3wpkrnbb-202103040900&Redirect=true
THANK YOU FOR SENDING YOUR APPEARANCE CARD – WITH UNITY COMES CHANGE,
We have a member representing FAC today in opposition of the SB 234, as is, and will strongly suggest an accurate definition of “a day”. Approximately 200 appearance cards will also be delivered to the meeting in opposition of SB 234, as is.
Senate Bill 234 will be heard by the Senate Rules Committee this Thursday, March 4, 2021 at 9:00-11:00 A.M.
This bill will redefine the meaning of “day” to include “part of any calendar day”. FAC has submitted a letter in opposition to the Bill which you can read here: Letter to Rules RE SB234. Additionally, we plan to have a member speak before the meeting.
We are calling on all members to contact the members of the Senate Rules Committee by calling and emailing them via the information below, and asking them to OPPOSE SB 234. Please remember to be polite and professional. Remember, they (absent Senator Book) were not the one introducing this bill, they are considering it, so be mindful of that when communicating with them.
You can also fill out an appearance card and waive speaking against the bill.
- Open this Sample SB 234 Committee Appearance Form: https://floridaactioncommittee.org/sample-sb234-committee-appearance-form/
- Enter your name, job title, address, email and phone
- Save (Download with your changes) the completed form with your name in the filename: example AnnaK.pdf
- Email completed form to: [email protected]
The blank appearance card can be printed from here: https://www.flsenate.gov/UserContent/Committees/CommitteeAppearanceForm.pdf. Please make sure you have the date of the meeting (March 4, 2021), the Bill Number (SB 234), all your contact information, that you waive speaking AGAINST the bill. If using the blank form, scan and email a copy to [email protected].
We must receive your form by 5:00 pm Wednesday March 3 so that we can present it in Tallahassee on March 4, 2021.
| CHAIR: Senator Kathleen Passidomo (R) | (850) 487-5028 | [email protected] |
| VICE CHAIR: Senator Ileana Garcia (R) | (850) 487-5037 | [email protected] |
| Senator Ben Albritton (R) | (850) 487-5026 | [email protected] |
| Senator Dennis Baxley (R) | (850) 487-5012 | [email protected] |
| Senator Aaron Bean (R) | (850) 487-5004 | [email protected] |
| Senator Lauren Book (D) | (850) 487-5032 | [email protected] |
| Senator Randolph Bracy (D) | (850) 487-5011 | [email protected] |
| Senator Jeff Brandes (R) | (850) 487-5024 | [email protected] |
| Senator Manny Diaz, Jr. (R) | (850) 487-5036 | [email protected] |
| Senator Gary M. Farmer, Jr. (D) | (850) 487-5034 | [email protected] |
| Senator Audrey Gibson (D) | (850) 487-5006 | [email protected] |
| Senator Joe Gruters (R) | (850) 487-5023 | [email protected] |
| Senator Travis Hutson (R) | (850) 487-5007 | [email protected] |
| Senator Debbie Mayfield (R) | (850) 487-5017 | [email protected] |
| Senator Bobby Powell (D) | (850) 487-5030 | [email protected] |
| Senator Kelli Stargel (R) | (850) 487-5022 | [email protected] |
| Senator Perry E. Thurston, Jr. (D) | (850) 487-5033 | [email protected] |
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This is my re-reg month and I am here in Duval county. Being disabled I do have an arrangement with one of the detectives for my re-reg requirements. Today, I called the Felony Registration office and the Ofc who answered the phone was polite and kind as he took care of my re-reg requirements.
ONE of the questions was about temporary residence. As required, I have included the address of the Naval Hospital. The Ofc asked do I stay there and I responded that I have been required to spend many overnight visits for medical procedures. He told me “Well this is technically a business, and we DONT want someone to look you up and assume your living there. Lets remove this from your re-reg document.
IF in the future you have to go back into the hospital, just give us a call and we will add the address and when your treatment is complete it will be deleted”.
Hmmmmm. How will this change when/if this bill becomes law?
Sharing an experience.
As usual, they are making up the rules as they go and flying by the seat of their pants.
I’d like to plant something else along the seats of their pants! – A size 12 boot!
The bill has essentially become law effective date as soon as Gubna DeSatanist signs it.
SB 234 3/18/2021 Senate – CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0; Immediately Certified; House – In Messages
Here’s the final text of the bill:
https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/234/BillText/c2/PDF
I concur with the business exception. The analysis of the bill seems to confirm that:
According to the FDLE, the previously-described language specifies the existing protocols and practices utilized with Florida registration laws for over two decades.
A calendar day is a day; Midnight to 11:59pm, 365/366 days a year.
Residing, abiding, lodging, or living for any part of a day at a location/address counts as one (1) day.
Tracking other judicial rules and Florida Statutes, the first day at a newly established location is not counted in calculating the number of days to determine residency for the purposes of registration.
The 48 hours to register a permanent, temporary, or transient residence begins after the third calendar day counted towards residency (i.e. the 4th day at the location) regardless of what time the person departs the residence on the third day or anytime
afterwards.
The FDLE provides the following additional comments regarding the protocols on calculating days and the language in the bill that codifies that protocol:
This protocol carries the benefits of eliminating any need or question regarding “stopwatch” timing or calculating across calendar days or time zones to determine residency on the part of those required to register or those tasked with enforcing or prosecuting registration laws.
Nothing precludes a person from registering a residence earlier, if more convenient for them, prior to remaining at a location/address for the 3 days establishing the location as a registerable residence or the 48 hour reporting period that follows.
The language does not in any way alter the existing definitions of permanent, temporary or transient residences. The definitions for what qualify as a permanent, temporary and transient residence remain the same.
https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/234/Analyses/2021s00234.rc.PDF
FAC didn’t you say Oct 1 is the effective date? Is that still accurate?
This has not been signed into law yet but it now says “Effective Date: Upon becoming a law”.
We will have to address this through the legal process.
Some good news in the final bill, no? No “being present.” “Residing, lodging, or living” are clear enough. I don’t know what “abiding” is or how the affects homes you simply visit a lot.
One can register up to 48 hours AFTER the third day? Did I read that right?
The biggest downside, I think, is that hotel stays (non-registerable) are down from three nights to two.
FAC am I reading this accurately?
Is vehicle registration online now?
Many thanks again to our volunteer committees.
Am I reading right that if you stay at a hotel for three days and check out, you then have another 48 hours to register that address, at which time you would immediately de-register it also.
Am I reading too much into it?
CS/CS/SB 234: Registration of Sexual Predators and Sexual Offenders
3/10/2021 Senate – CS/CS by Rules read 1st time -SJ 228
https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/234/?Tab=BillHistory
Senate Committee References:
Criminal Justice (CJ)
Judiciary (JU)
Rules (RC)
Rules was the last committee for this bill. They meet again on the 11th [tomorrow], but this bill is NOT on the agenda.
https://flsenate.gov/Committees/Show/RC/ExpandedAgenda/5113
If 234 passes I will be compiling and then submitting what I anticipate will be a list hundreds of entries long. Every street corner I may walk past, every store I may walk past in a given shopping area will be added. Every traffic signal I stop at at least 4 times a year will have that entered – I am there for part of a day 4 times a year. I intend to take this to the absurd level the law requires starting with areas closest to my home and working out, adding addresses using google maps, even registering sections of turnpikes and freeways. I will continue to update as needed and turn them in when I register.
I encourage every other registrant to do the same and not just to inundate them with addresses that must be entered, but to show the lunacy of this law. More importantly, if you don’t you may be subject to arrest.
David
A great idea for us to do if this passes. EVERY single registered person needs to show up on the first day of the month even though you have all month to register in most cases. Everyone can spend hours at a time registering their list of places they were that day.
The next day another group can do the same thing. They would have to hire an entire team of registry goons to keep up. It would litterally break the internet.
David,
If I read the law correctly, you can’t just make a list and hand it to them at re registration time. All temporary residences have to be reported within 48 hours. If you wait until re registration time, you could be arrested for 100’s of felonies for waiting to register after the allowed limit.
Not seeing any more calls to action on this. Is that because we feel we have what we need to file for an injunction? I don’t mind submitting appearance cards to other committees.
We need the dates and times for the upcoming meetings. We will have to send letters to individual senators.
We’re just helping Sen Book write her next campaign speech:
“Florida’s sexual predators hate me. They have called me a terrorist, a fascist, that I deserve to lie dead in front of a blood-red wall.”
(Crowd boos).
“Well, to quote the great Franklin Delano Roosevelt: I welcome their hatred!”
(Crowd cheers).
Sen Book doesn’t want registrants to die.
She needs them alive, so she can sponsor legislation against them and their families.
While we’re going on about this, Barney Bishop is still attacking City Walk. Unfortunately, this meeting was this morning and I just noew saw this on Bishop’s FB page.
Barney Bishop III
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Tallahassee SEX OFFENDERS Homeless Shelter, located illegally at 1709 Mahan Drive, is being discussed tomorrow – Monday, March 8, 2021, at 9 am at the Walker-Ford Community Center, 2301 Pasco Street when the Development Review Committee (DRC) meets…
City Walk, the operator of this facility, is in clear violation of state statute because the SEX OFFENDER Homeless Shelter is within 1000 feet of HillTop Academy which is a Day Care Center…City Walk knows this or should know this, but they believe that they can do whatever they want with impunity…
The DRC has recommended that City Walk’s application be DECLINED, and the Mahan Neighbors Association, Florida Smart Justice Alliance, Citizens for Responsible Spending, and other affected and adversely impacted neighborhoods are hoping that the DRC votes to accept the recommendation to DECLINE the application
Ok
so mister BARNEY
Go ahead and force these folks out. THEN, when they have no place to go and get desperate, they will be camping in your back yard, pooping in your bushes, etc etc.
A large percentage of people in the U.S are just a paycheck away from being homeless. Maybe he should go live in a homeless camp for a couple of days and see for himself what it is like. I guess being homeless AND on the registry is a double kick in the groin.
If it had not been for my parents when I got released, I would be on the streets.