Bill would modify “stand your ground” law

Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. A proposed bill working its way through the committee process for this legislative session aims to change the wording as it applies to the use of lethal force in defense of self or property. Senate Bill 96, cited as the Self-Defense Restoration Act, would make it so that a person would have a duty to retreat if possible before resorting to force or deadly force in a confrontation. The new law would strip from the language of the existing law the provision that a person who threatens to use deadly or nondeadly force in defense of self or property, or actually uses either, does not have a duty to retreat if possible before taking the threatened or deadl