Florida Senate - 2012                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 514
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                    Senate             .             House              
                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  01/12/2012           .                                
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       The Committee on Community Affairs (Richter) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
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    4         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    5  and insert:
    6         Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subsection (1) and paragraphs
    7  (d) and (j) of subsection (2) of section 401.465, Florida
    8  Statutes, are amended, present paragraph (k) of subsection (2)
    9  of that section is redesignated as subsection (l), and a new
   10  paragraph (k) is added to that subsection, to read:
   11         401.465 911 public safety telecommunicator certification.—
   12         (1) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this section, the term:
   13         (a) “911 public safety telecommunicator” means a public
   14  safety dispatcher or 911 operator whose duties and
   15  responsibilities include the answering, receiving, transferring,
   16  and dispatching functions related to 911 calls; dispatching law
   17  enforcement officers, fire rescue services, emergency medical
   18  services, and other public safety services to the scene of an
   19  emergency; providing real-time information from federal, state,
   20  and local crime databases; or supervising or serving as the
   21  command officer to a person or persons having such duties and
   22  responsibilities. However, the term does not include:
   23         1. Administrative support personnel, including, but not
   24  limited to, those whose primary duties and responsibilities are
   25  in accounting, purchasing, legal, and personnel; or.
   26         2.A sworn state-certified law enforcement officer who is
   27  selected by the chief executive officer of the law enforcement
   28  agency that employs the law enforcement officer and who performs
   29  on an occasional or limited basis as a public safety
   30  telecommunicator.
   31         (2) PERSONNEL; STANDARDS AND CERTIFICATION.—
   32         (d) The department shall determine whether the applicant
   33  meets the requirements specified in this section and in rules of
   34  the department and shall issue a certificate to any person who
   35  meets such requirements. Such requirements must include the
   36  following:
   37         1. Completion of an appropriate 911 public safety
   38  telecommunication training program;
   39         2. Certification under oath that the applicant is not
   40  addicted to alcohol or any controlled substance;
   41         3. Certification under oath that the applicant is free from
   42  any physical or mental defect or disease that might impair the
   43  applicant’s ability to perform his or her duties;
   44         4. Submission of the application fee prescribed in
   45  subsection (3);
   46         5. Submission of a completed application to the department
   47  which indicates compliance with subparagraphs 1., 2., and 3.;
   48  and
   49         6. Effective October 1, 2012, passage of an examination
   50  approved administered by the department which measures the
   51  applicant’s competency and proficiency in the subject material
   52  of the public safety telecommunication training program.
   53         (j) If a person was employed as a 911 public safety
   54  telecommunicator, a sworn state-certified law enforcement
   55  officer, or a state-certified firefighter before April 1, 2012,
   56  he or she must pass the examination administered by the
   57  department which measures the competency and proficiency in the
   58  subject material of the public safety telecommunication program,
   59  as defined in paragraph (1)(c). Upon passage of the examination,
   60  the completion of the public safety telecommunication training
   61  program is shall be waived.
   62         (k) Upon the passage of the examination approved by the
   63  department which measures the competency and proficiency in the
   64  subject material of the public safety telecommunication program,
   65  a person who is employed as a sworn state-certified law
   66  enforcement officer and selected by the chief executive officer
   67  of the law enforcement agency that employs the law enforcement
   68  officer is not required to complete a public safety
   69  telecommunication training program in order to perform on an
   70  occasional or limited basis as a public safety telecommunicator.
   71  The fees in subsection (3) do not apply to testing under this
   72  paragraph. A sworn state-certified law enforcement officer who
   73  fails the examination taken under this paragraph must complete
   74  the 40-hour public safety telecommunication training program
   75  sponsored by the Department of Law Enforcement or complete a
   76  public safety telecommunication training program approved by the
   77  department before retaking the examination.
   78         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2012.
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   80  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   81         And the title is amended as follows:
   82         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   83  and insert:
   84                        A bill to be entitled                      
   85         An act relating to public safety; amending s. 401.465,
   86         F.S.; providing that a sworn state-certified law
   87         enforcement officer under certain circumstances is not
   88         included in the definition of the term “911 public
   89         safety telecommunicator”; providing that a sworn
   90         state-certified law enforcement officers is not
   91         required to complete a public safety telecommunication
   92         training program under certain circumstances in order
   93         to occasionally perform as a public safety
   94         telecommunicator; providing that the application fee
   95         and examination fee to take the examination that
   96         measures the competency and proficiency in the subject
   97         material of a public safety telecommunication program
   98         do not apply to a sworn state-certified law
   99         enforcement officer who occasionally performs as a
  100         public safety telecommunicator; requiring that a sworn
  101         state-certified law enforcement officer who fails the
  102         examination complete a public safety telecommunication
  103         training program before retaking the examination;
  104         providing an effective date.