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Florida · 2025 Regular Session
S1042Interfering with an Officer's Means of Protection or Communication
Direction
FirearmsotherAI label
↓Restricts gun accessmodel confidence 80%
Adds a new felony for depriving or rendering useless an officer's weapon (including by the new language covering digital recording devices and restraint devices), which is then listed as a level 3 offense in the offense severity ranking chart, increasing penalties for such acts.
Any person who violates this section commits [deleted: is guilty] [deleted: of] a felony of the third degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.
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Status: Failed
Last action
2025-06-16: Died in Criminal Justice, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/CS/HB 1371 (Ch. 2025-176)
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill creates and expands a felony offense for interfering with (depriving or rendering useless) a law enforcement officer's weapon, radio, digital recording device, or restraint device, which is added to background screening disqualifiers and the offense severity ranking chart. This affects firearms via the weapon provision but does not change rules on buying, owning, carrying, or accessing firearms themselves; the net effect is more criminal liability and screening for acts involving officers' weapons (restricts the axis for the new prohibition) while the ranking chart update is a neutral
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