FL Representative Mike Caruso files bill making hate acts or antisemitic messages a felony

April 19, 2023 – Florida House Bill 269 will allow to prosecute any antisemitic crimes as a hate crime punishable as a third degree felony.

HB269: Public Nuisances
GENERAL BILL by Judiciary Committee ; Criminal Justice Subcommittee ; Caruso ; Fine ; (CO-INTRODUCERS) Abbott ; Altman ; Alvarez ; Amesty ; Anderson ; Andrade ; Antone ; Arrington ; Baker ; Bankson ; Barnaby ; Bartleman ; Basabe ; Bell ; Benjamin ; Berfield ; Black ; Borrero ; Botana ; Brackett ; Brannan ; Campbell ; Casello ; Cassel ; Chambliss ; Chaney ; Cross ; Daley ; Daniels ; Duggan ; Edmonds ; Eskamani ; Fabricio ; Fernandez-Barquin ; Franklin ; Garcia ; Garrison ; Giallombardo ; Gonzalez Pittman ; Gossett-Seidman ; Gottlieb ; Griffitts ; Harris ; Hawkins ; Hinson ; Holcomb ; Killebrew ; Koster ; LaMarca ; Lopez, V. ; Maney ; Massullo ; McClain ; Michael ; Overdorf ; Payne ; Perez ; Persons-Mulicka ; Plakon ; Plasencia ; Porras ; Rizo ; Roach ; Robinson, W. ; Roth ; Rudman ; Salzman ; Silvers ; Sirois ; Smith ; Snyder ; Stark ; Steele ; Stevenson ; Tant ; Temple ; Tramont ; Valdés ; Waldron ; Yarkosky ; Tomkow ; McClure ; Clemons ; Rommel ; Gregory ; Renner ; Melo ; Truenow ; Buchanan ; Grant ; Beltran ; Mooney ; Tuck ; Trabulsy ; Maggard ; Jacques ; Yeager ; Esposito ; Canady ; Bracy Davis ; Rayner-Goolsby ; Williams ; Skidmore ; Hunschofsky ; Nixon ; Robinson, F. ; Hart ; Dunkley ; Driskell ; Joseph ; Gantt ; Woodson

Public Nuisances; Prohibits person from distributing onto private property any material for purpose of intimidating or threatening owner, resident, or invitee; prohibits person from willfully & maliciously harassing, threatening, or intimidating another person based on person’s wearing or displaying of any indicia relating to any religious or ethnic heritage; requires violations be reported as hate crimes; prohibits display or projection of images onto building, structure, or property without permission; prohibits person who willfully enters campus of state university or Florida College System institution for purpose of threatening or intimidating another person from remaining on such campus after being warned to depart.

See https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/269/ByVersion