The first item on the Agenda for today’s Senate Criminal Justice Subcommittee meeting at 4, will be the “Lifetime Monitoring Bill”
Gail will be there and plans on testifying.
For those who would like to attend as well, the meeting will take place in the Mallory Horne Committee Room, 37 Senate Office Building
For those who would like to watch online, you can visit the Florida Senate website http://www.flsenate.gov/Media/VideoSchedule at that time to watch the broadcast.
Some IMPORTANT notes about this Bill. On Friday Afternoon Senator Gibson proposed Amendments to initiate a “Study” of lifetime monitoring instead of implementing lifetime monitoring. Interestingly and seemingly out of nowhere, she also introduced risk assessments (good) and increasing the curfew to 7PM to 7AM (very bad). It seems her bill SB 336 didn’t go anywhere, so she just stuck the provisions into this one. Sneaky!
Thank you , Gail and FAC!
let’s hope this one is dead (for now)
I’ve been there for bills that I’ve personally written and as FAC states: things get snuck in all the time. Let’s keep up the fight!
If you have experience in bill writing, for next legislative session we will be proposing legislation. Whether we have a chance of getting it through or not is another matter, but we will be getting together a team for that purpose. I encourage anyone with experience in this area to participate.
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Went on there to look at video and they did not go over the bill from what I saw. Nothing but drone laws and a ridiculously long session about ticket sales. Did the monitoring bill hearing get moved? I thought it was disturbing seeing some of those senators confused about wordings of a bill as the guy went on about the drone bill and the 25 mile radius nonsense. Nobody seemed to comprehend that. Pretty funny (and disturbing) stuff. And these people are the ones making our laws??????
UPDATE:
The bill was scheduled to be heard on Monday but was not. That was the last criminal justice meeting of this session and absent a call for a special session this bill could be dead. Alternatively, a legislator can tack the provisions of this bill onto another at the last minute as a way of sneaking it in. If neither of the foregoing happens, it will die.
Gail has been in Tallahassee speaking to legislators and campaigning against the bill. We will continue to monitor to see whether it pops it’s head up again someplace.
Just watched 2 hours of the senate meeting and no mention of sb134. Very frustrating but sense this is normal. Procedure? Meeting started 20 minutes late. No apologies for other people’s time? Gail must be a very patient person !!!