Florida Senate - 2023                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 252
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  04/21/2023           .                                
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       The Committee on Fiscal Policy (Burton) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment to Amendment (422702) (with title
    2  amendment)
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    4         Delete lines 183 - 215
    5  and insert:
    6  institution in this state or as a condition of contracting,
    7  hiring, promotion, or continued employment with the educational
    8  institution. An educational institution may not discharge or
    9  refuse to hire a person; deprive or attempt to deprive a person
   10  of employment opportunities; adversely affect a person’s status
   11  as an employee or as an applicant for employment; or otherwise
   12  discriminate against a person based on knowledge or belief of
   13  the person’s status relating to vaccination with any vaccine
   14  defined under subsection (1) or COVID-19 postinfection recovery,
   15  or a person’s failure to take a COVID-19 test.
   16         (c) For matters relating to vaccines other than those
   17  defined under subsection (1), an educational institution shall
   18  provide for exemptions and reasonable accommodations for
   19  religious and medical reasons in accordance with federal law.
   20         (3)(a) An educational institution may not require a person
   21  to wear a face mask, a face shield, or any other facial covering
   22  that covers the mouth and nose. An educational institution may
   23  not deny any person access to, entry upon, service from, or
   24  admission to such educational institution or otherwise
   25  discriminate against a person based on such person’s refusal to
   26  wear a face mask, a face shield, or any other facial covering
   27  that covers the mouth and nose.
   28         (b) Paragraph (a) does not apply to:
   29         1. A health care provider or health care practitioner as
   30  those terms are defined in s. 408.824, provided such health care
   31  provider or health care practitioner is in compliance with that
   32  section.
   33         2. An educational institution when a face mask, a face
   34  shield, or any other facial covering that covers the mouth and
   35  nose is used as required safety equipment in a course of study
   36  consistent with occupational or laboratory safety requirements,
   37  in accordance with standards adopted by the Department of
   38  Health. The Department of Health shall adopt emergency rules to
   39  develop such standards. Emergency rules adopted under this
   40  subparagraph are exempt from s. 120.54(4)(c) and shall remain in
   41  effect until replaced by rules adopted under the nonemergency
   42  rulemaking procedures of the Administrative Procedure Act.
   43         (4)(a) Notwithstanding s. 768.39, the Department of Health
   44  may impose an
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   47  And the title is amended as follows:
   48         Delete lines 499 - 500
   49  and insert:
   50         as a condition of contracting, hiring, promotion, or
   51         continued employment; prohibiting educational
   52         institutions from discharging persons, refusing to
   53         hire persons, depriving or attempting to deprive
   54         persons of employment opportunities, adversely
   55         affecting persons with respect to employment, or
   56         otherwise discriminating against any person based on
   57         the knowledge or belief of a person’s vaccination or
   58         COVID-19 postinfection