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11  Senator Forman moved the following amendment:

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13         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 

14         On page 44, between lines 14 and 15,

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17         Section 33.  Section 471.025, Florida Statutes, is

18  amended to read:

19         471.025  Seals.--

20         (1)  The board shall prescribe, by rule, a form of seal

21  to be used by registrants holding valid certificates of

22  registration.  Each registrant shall obtain an impression-type

23  metal seal in the form aforesaid and may, in addition,

24  register his or her seal electronically in accordance with ss.

25  282.70-282.75.  All final drawings, specifications, plans,

26  reports, or documents prepared or issued by the registrant and

27  being filed for public record and final bid documents provided

28  to the owner or the owner's representative shall be signed by

29  the registrant, dated, and stamped with said seal. Such

30  signature, date, and seal shall be evidence of the

31  authenticity of that to which they are affixed.  Drawings,

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 1  specifications, plans, reports, final bid documents, or

 2  documents prepared or issued by a registrant may be

 3  transmitted electronically and may be signed by the

 4  registrant, dated, and stamped electronically with said seal

 5  in accordance with ss. 282.70-282.75.

 6         (2)  It is unlawful for any person to stamp, seal, or

 7  digitally sign any document with a seal or digital signature

 8  after his or her certificate of registration has expired or

 9  been revoked or suspended, unless such certificate of

10  registration has been reinstated or reissued. When the

11  certificate of registration of a registrant has been revoked

12  or suspended by the board, it shall be mandatory that the

13  registrant, within a period of 30 days after the revocation or

14  suspension has become effective, surrender his or her seal to

15  the secretary of the board and confirm to the secretary the

16  cancellation of the registrant's digital signature in

17  accordance with ss. 282.70-282.75.  In the event the

18  registrant's certificate has been suspended for a period of

19  time, his or her seal shall be returned to him or her upon

20  expiration of the suspension period.

21         (3)  No registrant shall affix or permit to be affixed

22  his or her seal, name, or digital signature to any plan,

23  specification, drawing, final bid document, or other document

24  that which depicts work which he or she is not licensed to

25  perform or which is beyond his or her profession or specialty

26  therein.

27         Section 34.  Present subsections (13) through (26) of

28  section 633.021, Florida Statutes, are redesignated as

29  subsections (14) through (27), respectively, and a new

30  subsection (13) is added to that section to read:

31         633.021  Definitions.--As used in this chapter:

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 1         (13)  "Layout" as used in this chapter means the layout

 2  of risers, cross mains, branch lines, sprinkler heads, sizing

 3  of pipe, hanger locations, and hydraulic calculations in

 4  accordance with the design concepts established through the

 5  provisions of s. 553.79(6)(c).

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11  And the title is amended as follows:

12         On page 3, line 2, after the semicolon,

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15         amending s. 471.025, F.S.; requiring

16         professional engineers to seal all final bid

17         documents; amending s. 633.021, F.S.; providing

18         a definition of the term "layout";

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