TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Florida is taking steps to create new criminal offenses to combat terrorism.
The Florida House unanimously passed a bill Friday that would create five new criminal offenses for people who work with terrorist groups or commit acts of terrorism.
Acts of terrorism themselves would be a new first-degree felony offense under state law.
Another new offense would make it a first-degree felony to use “military-type training” provided by a foreign terrorist organization to harm someone or disrupt critical infrastructure.
Another would make it a first-degree felony to provide resources to terrorist groups.
It would be a second-degree felony to join a foreign terrorist group.
And it would create the offense of agroterrorism, or intentionally spreading contagious diseases among crops or livestock.
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