Florida Senate - 2015                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 414
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  03/30/2015           .                                
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       The Committee on Commerce and Tourism (Bean) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment 
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    3         Delete lines 67 - 92
    4  and insert:
    5  alike to all persons. The term does not include air carriers
    6  covered by the Air Carrier Access Act of 1986, 49 U.S.C. s.
    7  41705, and by regulations that implement such act that are
    8  adopted by the United States Department of Transportation.
    9         (d) “Service animal” means an animal that is trained to do
   10  work or perform tasks for an individual with a disability,
   11  including a physical, sensory, psychiatric, intellectual, or
   12  other mental disability. The work done or tasks performed must
   13  be directly related to the individual’s disability and may
   14  include, but are not limited to, guiding an individual a person
   15  who is visually impaired or blind, alerting an individual a
   16  person who is deaf or hard of hearing, pulling a wheelchair,
   17  assisting with mobility or balance, alerting and protecting an
   18  individual a person who is having a seizure, retrieving objects,
   19  alerting an individual to the presence of allergens, providing
   20  physical support and assistance with balance and stability to an
   21  individual with a mobility disability, helping an individual
   22  with a psychiatric or neurological disability by preventing or
   23  interrupting impulsive or destructive behaviors, reminding an
   24  individual with mental illness to take prescribed medications,
   25  calming an individual with posttraumatic stress disorder during
   26  an anxiety attack, or doing other specific work or performing
   27  other special tasks. For purposes of subsections (2), (3), and
   28  (4), the term is limited to a dog or miniature horse. A service
   29  animal is not a pet. The crime-deterrent