Florida Senate - 2022                                     SB 538
       
       
        
       By Senator Hooper
       
       
       
       
       
       16-00652A-22                                           2022538__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to private instructional personnel
    3         providing applied behavior analysis services; amending
    4         s. 1003.572, F.S.; revising the definition of the term
    5         “private instructional personnel” to include certain
    6         registered behavior technicians; providing an
    7         effective date.
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    9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   11         Section 1. Present paragraphs (b) through (f) of subsection
   12  (1) of section 1003.572, Florida Statutes, are redesignated as
   13  paragraphs (c) through (g), respectively, and a new paragraph
   14  (b) is added to that subsection, to read:
   15         1003.572 Collaboration of public and private instructional
   16  personnel.—
   17         (1) As used in this section, the term “private
   18  instructional personnel” means:
   19         (b) Registered behavior technicians who have a nationally
   20  recognized paraprofessional certification in behavior analysis
   21  and who practice under the supervision of individuals described
   22  in paragraph (a) by assisting and supporting such individuals in
   23  the provision of applied behavior analysis services.
   24         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2022.