Bill > H0189

Introduced Session

An act relating to gaming control; amending s. 843.08, F.S.; prohibiting a person from falsely personating any personnel or representative from the Florida Gaming Control Commission; providing a criminal penalty; amending s. 849.01, F.S.; specifying a violation of the prohibition against keeping a gambling house must be committed knowingly; increasing the criminal penalty for a violation; amending s. 849.15, F.S.; providing definitions; increasing the criminal penalty for specified violations involving a slot machine or device; creating s. 849.155, F.S.; prohibiting a person from trafficking in slot machines or devices; providing a criminal penalty; requiring a court to order an offender to pay a specified fine if he or she is convicted of trafficking in a specified number of slot machines or devices; providing for deposit of fines collected and use of proceeds; creating s. 849.157, F.S.; prohibiting a person from making false statements or disseminating false information regarding the legality of a slot machine or device to facilitate the sale or delivery of such device; providing criminal penalties; repealing s. 849.23, F.S., relating to penalties for specified violations; creating s. 849.47, F.S.; prohibiting a person from, for profit or hire, transporting or procuring the transportation of a specified number of other persons to facilitate illegal gambling; providing criminal penalties; defining the term "illegal gambling"; creating s. 849.48, F.S.; prohibiting a person from making or disseminating specified advertisements to promote or facilitate illegal gambling; prohibiting activities for creation of specified advertisements if a person knows or reasonably should know such material will be used to promote or facilitate illegal gambling; providing a criminal penalty; providing an exception; defining the term "illegal gambling"; creating s. 849.49, F.S.; specifying that the regulation of gambling is expressly preempted to the state; providing an exception; amending s. 903.046, F.S.; requiring a court to consider the amount of currency seized that is connected to specified violations relating to illegal gambling when determining bail; amending s. 921.0022, F.S.; ranking offenses created by the act on the offense severity ranking chart of the Criminal Punishment Code; re-ranking specified offenses on the offense severity ranking chart of the Criminal Punishment Code; conforming provisions to changes made by the act; amending ss. 772.102 and 895.02, F.S.; conforming provisions to changes made by the act; providing an effective date.

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Michelle Salzman (R)*, 

Other Sponsors (2)

Died on Second Reading Calendar (on 03/08/2024)

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Official Document