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| 3 | 3 | | HB 13A 2025A |
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| 10 | 10 | | F L O R I D A H O U S E O F R E P R E S E N T A T I V E S |
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| 14 | 14 | | A bill to be entitled 1 |
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| 15 | 15 | | An act relating to combatting illegal immigration; 2 |
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| 16 | 16 | | amending s. 907.041, F.S.; requiring the presumption 3 |
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| 17 | 17 | | that no conditions of release will secure the 4 |
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| 18 | 18 | | appearance at trial of an unauthorized alien; 5 |
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| 19 | 19 | | requiring the state attorney or the court to move for 6 |
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| 20 | 20 | | pretrial detention if the court makes certain 7 |
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| 21 | 21 | | determinations; authorizing defendants to rebut the 8 |
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| 22 | 22 | | presumption; providing for severability; providing an 9 |
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| 23 | 23 | | effective date. 10 |
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| 25 | 25 | | Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 12 |
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| 27 | 27 | | Section 1. Present paragraphs (f) through (n) of 14 |
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| 28 | 28 | | subsection (5) of section 907.041, Florida Statutes, are 15 |
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| 29 | 29 | | redesignated as paragraphs (g) through (o), respectively, and a 16 |
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| 30 | 30 | | new paragraph (f) is added to that subsection, to read: 17 |
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| 31 | 31 | | 907.041 Pretrial detention and release. — 18 |
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| 32 | 32 | | (5) PRETRIAL DETENTION. — 19 |
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| 33 | 33 | | (f) It shall be presumed that no conditions of release 20 |
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| 34 | 34 | | will secure the appearance at trial of an unauthorized alien as 21 |
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| 35 | 35 | | defined in s. 908.111. If a court determines that there is 22 |
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| 36 | 36 | | probable cause to believe that the defendant committed the 23 |
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| 37 | 37 | | offense and the court further determines by a preponderance of 24 |
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| 38 | 38 | | the evidence that the defendant is an unauthorized alien as 25 |
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| 40 | 40 | | HB 13A 2025A |
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| 51 | 51 | | defined in s. 908.111, the state attorney , or the court on its 26 |
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| 52 | 52 | | own motion, must move for pretrial detention. The defendant may 27 |
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| 53 | 53 | | rebut the presumption by demonstrating, by a preponderance of 28 |
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| 54 | 54 | | the evidence, that adequate conditions of release will secure 29 |
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| 55 | 55 | | the appearance of the defendant at trial. 30 |
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| 56 | 56 | | Section 2. If any provision of this act or its application 31 |
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| 57 | 57 | | to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity 32 |
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| 58 | 58 | | does not affect other provisions or applications of this act 33 |
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| 59 | 59 | | which can be given effect without the invalid provisions or 34 |
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| 60 | 60 | | application, and to this end the provisions of this act are 35 |
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| 61 | 61 | | severable. 36 |
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| 62 | 62 | | Section 3. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law. 37 |
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