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SB 470
  • Introduced
    Oct 13, 2021
  • Passed Senate
  • Passed House
  • Signed into Law
SB 470
Florida Senate Bill
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Revising Penalties for Nonviolent Offenses; Authorizing the issuance of civil citations for the possession of 20 grams or less of cannabis and the possession of drug paraphernalia used in connection with the consumption of cannabis; providing for civil fines; providing for community service in lieu of civil fines; revising a principle of the Criminal Punishment Code relating to a prisoner’s required minimum term of imprisonment, etc.
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Senate • Mar 14, 2022: Died in Judiciary
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S 470 Filed
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FL2022HB 957
Revising Penalties for Criminal Offenses; Provides civil citations for possession of small amounts of cannabis & cannabis paraphernalia offenses; provides community service in lieu of fines; limits number of civil citations that person may receive; provides person who contests violation waives specified civil penalty & may receive larger penalty; revises Criminal Punishment Code relating to prison...
FL2022HB 171
Criminal Rehabilitation; Specifies to rehabilitate offender to transition back to community successfully is one of primary purposes of sentencing; reduces minimum sentence that must be served by defendant from 85 percent of sentence to 65 percent; revises provisions concerning gain time to provide for outstanding deed gain-time, good behavior time, & rehabilitation credits; revises limits on award...
FL2022HB 725
Collateral Consequences and Penalties for Criminal Offenses; Adopts Uniform Collateral Consequences of Convictions Act; provides duties of DLA concerning certain laws providing for collateral consequences of criminal convictions; requires certain notices be provided to criminal defendants; specifies criteria to be used by decisionmakers considering imposing disqualifications on persons convicted o...
FL2022SB 504
Criminal Convictions; Revising the principles embodied by the Criminal Punishment Code as it relates to punishment and rehabilitation; authorizing the Department of Corrections to grant deductions from sentences in the form of good behavior time, rehabilitation credits, and outstanding deed awards, rather than solely for gain-time, for specified purposes; revising the “tentative release date” ...
FL2022SB 1486
Gain-time; Revising a principle of the Criminal Punishment Code relating to a prisoner’s required minimum term of imprisonment; revising the incentive gain-time that the Department of Corrections may grant a prisoner; providing exceptions, etc.

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  • Mar 14, 2022 | Senate
    • Died in Judiciary
  • Mar 12, 2022 | Senate
    • Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
  • Jan 11, 2022 | Senate
    • Introduced
  • Oct 21, 2021 | Senate
    • Referred to Judiciary; Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Appropriations
  • Oct 13, 2021 | Senate
    • Filed
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