| 1 | Representative Drake offered the following: |
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| 3 | Amendment (with title amendment) |
| 4 | Between lines 222 and 223, insert: |
| 5 | Section 2. Paragraph (i) is added to subsection (1) of |
| 6 | section 403.862, Florida Statutes, to read: |
| 7 | 403.862 Department of Health; public water supply duties |
| 8 | and responsibilities; coordinated budget requests with |
| 9 | department.- |
| 10 | (1) Recognizing that supervision and control of county |
| 11 | health departments of the Department of Health is retained by |
| 12 | the State Surgeon General, and that public health aspects of the |
| 13 | state public water supply program require joint participation in |
| 14 | the program by the Department of Health and its units and the |
| 15 | department, the Department of Health shall: |
| 16 | (i) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, delegate |
| 17 | the responsibility of testing public water systems in small |
| 18 | counties, as defined in s. 163.05(3), to the local health |
| 19 | department. |
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| 23 | T I T L E A M E N D M E N T |
| 24 | Remove line 17 and insert: |
| 25 | to the Legislature; amending s. 403.862, F.S.; requiring |
| 26 | the Department of Health to delegate the responsibility of |
| 27 | testing public water systems in certain counties to the |
| 28 | local health department; providing an effective date. |