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Introduced Session

An act relating to career offender registration; amending s. 322.141, F.S.; requiring a certain driver license or identification marking for a career offender; requiring a career offender to report to the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles in a certain month to obtain an updated or renewed driver license or identification card; amending s. 775.261, F.S.; providing and revising definitions; providing that if a sanction is not imposed upon a career offender, such offender is deemed to have been released upon conviction; requiring a career offender to report in person at the sheriff’s office for initial registration; revising the time of such report; revising information and documentation required upon initial registration; specifying that information and documents are provided to the Department of Law Enforcement through the sheriff’s office; specifying the manner in which changes to a career offender’s information must be reported; requiring certain career offenders to report to the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles and obtain a driver license or identification card containing a required marking within a certain period of time; revising the information and documentation certain career offenders must provide to the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles when reporting; requiring a career offender to report changes to any information provided upon initial registration within certain periods of time; requiring the custodian of a jail to notify the Department of Law Enforcement within a certain period of time if such custodian has a career offender in his or her custody and upon release of such offender; requiring such custodian to take a digitized photograph of the career offender and provide it to the Department of Law Enforcement; requiring the custodian to notify the Department of Law Enforcement if a career offender escapes or dies; specifying the procedure for a career offender to establish a residence after initial registration; requiring the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to forward photographs and certain information to the Department of Law Enforcement and the Department of Corrections; authorizing the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to release certain images to the Department of Law Enforcement for purposes of public notification; requiring that certain career offenders report changes to certain information to the sheriff’s office within a certain period of time; requiring a career offender to report an in-state travel residence within a certain period of time; requiring a career offender who vacates a residence and does not establish another residence to report certain information in person within a certain period of time; requiring a career offender who remains at an address that such offender previously reported he or she was vacating to report such information in person within a certain period of time; requiring the sheriff’s office to report such information to the Department of Law Enforcement; removing a provision relating to the registration of a career offender at an office of the Department of Law Enforcement; revising procedures for establishing a residence outside this state; requiring a career offender to report previously unknown travel in person to the sheriff’s office as soon as possible before departure; revising the entities to which the career offender must provide certain residence information; requiring annual reregistration of career offenders during a certain month; specifying information that a career offender must provide upon reregistration; requiring the sheriff’s office to electronically submit to and update with the Department of Law Enforcement such information within a specified timeframe; requiring certain governmental entities to verify certain career offender information at least once per year; requiring local law enforcement agencies to report to the Department of Law Enforcement failure by a career offender to comply with registration requirements; providing that certain career offenders shall be considered for removal of registration requirements in certain circumstances; revising the location in which a career offender may petition for such removal; requiring notice to the Department of Law Enforcement of such petition within a certain time period; authorizing the Department of Law Enforcement to present evidence in opposition to removal; revising the circumstances in which a sheriff or chief of police may notify the community of the presence of a career offender; prohibiting the Department of Law Enforcement from publicly displaying information about a vehicle owned by a person who is not required to register as a career offender; revising the manner in which career offender addresses are verified and reported by law enforcement agencies; expanding circumstances under which a failure to report can result in a criminal offense; providing that a career offender commits a separate offense for each failure to register or report a piece of information; expanding the jurisdictions in which a career offender may be prosecuted for an act or omission; specifying what events constitute actual notice of the duty to register; providing that the failure to immediately register upon the occurrence of such events is grounds for a subsequent charge of failure to register; restricting a career offender from claiming a lack of notice as a defense in certain circumstances; enhancing the penalty for assisting in career offender noncompliance; amending s. 944.608, F.S.; defining terms; requiring certain career offenders under the supervision of the Department of Corrections to provide certain information after sentencing; requiring the Department of Corrections to report to the Department of Law Enforcement any failure of a career offender to comply with registration requirements; requiring a career offender to report to the sheriff’s office any vehicle changes within a certain period of time; revising the information the Department of Corrections is required to provide to the Department of Law Enforcement relating to career offenders; requiring the custodian of a jail to notify the Department of Law Enforcement within a certain period of time if such custodian has a career offender in his or her custody and upon release of such offender; requiring such custodian to take a digitized photograph of the career offender and provide it to the Department of Law Enforcement; providing that a federal agency responsible for supervising a career offender may forward certain information about the offender to the Department of Law Enforcement; providing that such federal agency may indicate whether use of the information is restricted to law enforcement purposes only or may be used for purposes of public notification; requiring a certain driver license or identification marking for a career offender who is under supervision but is not incarcerated; expanding the jurisdictions in which a career offender may be prosecuted for an act or omission; specifying what events constitute actual notice of the duty to register; providing that the failure to immediately register upon the occurrence of such events is grounds for a subsequent charge of failure to register; restricting a career offender from claiming a lack of notice as a defense in certain circumstances; creating offenses and penalties for assisting in career offender noncompliance with provisions relating to notification to the Department of Law Enforcement; specifying that such offenses and penalties do not apply if a career offender is incarcerated in or is in the custody of certain facilities; requiring annual reregistration of career offenders during a certain month; specifying information that a career offender must provide upon reregistration; providing penalties; requiring the sheriff’s office to electronically submit to and update with the Department of Law Enforcement such information within a specified timeframe; amending s. 944.609, F.S.; defining terms; providing legislative findings; specifying information the Department of Corrections must provide upon release of a career offender within a certain period of time; requiring the Department of Corrections or any law enforcement agency to notify the community of the presence of a sexual predator in the community when a career offender who is also designated as a sexual predator is in such community; providing an effective date.

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Jonathan Martin (R)*, 

Now in Fiscal Policy (on 02/18/2026)

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