Senate Bill 1202c1

    Florida Senate - 1999                           CS for SB 1202

    By the Committee on Banking and Insurance; and Senator Grant





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  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to workers' compensation;

  3         amending s. 440.092, F.S.; specifying special

  4         requirements for compensability with respect to

  5         officers who are going to or coming from work

  6         in law enforcement vehicles; 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.  Subsection (2) of section 440.092, Florida

12  Statutes, is amended to read:

13         440.092  Special requirements for compensability;

14  deviation from employment; subsequent intervening accidents.--

15         (2)  GOING OR COMING.--An injury suffered while going

16  to or coming from work is not an injury arising out of and in

17  the course of employment whether or not the employer provided

18  transportation if such means of transportation was available

19  for the exclusive personal use by the employee, unless the

20  employee was engaged in a special errand or mission for the

21  employer. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the

22  contrary, a law enforcement officer as defined in s. 943.10(1)

23  who is going to or coming from work in an official law

24  enforcement vehicle shall be deemed to be engaged in a special

25  errand or mission for the officer's employer.

26         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 1999.

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    Florida Senate - 1999                           CS for SB 1202
    311-2087-99




  1          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
  2                         Senate Bill 1202

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  4  Deletes correctional officers and correctional probation
    officers from the bill's amendments to the "going and coming"
  5  rule under the workers' compensation law, which amendments
    provide that a law enforcement officer going to or coming from
  6  work in an official law enforcement vehicle is considered to
    be engaged in a special errand or mission for the employer and
  7  is covered under the workers' compensation law.

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