Florida Senate - 2025 CS for SB 612 By the Committee on Criminal Justice; and Senator Burgess 591-02842-25 2025612c1 1 A bill to be entitled 2 An act relating to murder; amending s. 782.04, F.S.; 3 creating the offense of murder in the third degree; 4 providing criminal penalties; providing an effective 5 date. 6 7 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 8 9 Section 1.Present subsection (5) of section 782.04, 10 Florida Statutes, is redesignated as subsection (6), and a new 11 subsection (5) is added to that section, to read: 12 782.04Murder. 13 (5)The unlawful killing of a human being, when perpetrated 14 without any design to effect death, by a person engaged in the 15 perpetration of, or in the attempt to perpetrate, the unlawful 16 distribution of any substance listed in sub-subparagraphs 17 (1)(a)3.a.-j. by a person younger than 18 years of age, when 18 such substance is proven to have caused or is proven to have 19 been a substantial factor in producing the death of the user, is 20 murder in the third degree and constitutes a felony of the 21 second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, 22 or s. 775.084. 23 Section 2.This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.