HOUSE AMENDMENT

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    Amendment No. ___ (for drafter's use only)

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11  Representative(s) Fasano offered the following:

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13         Amendment (with title amendment) 

14         On page 2 between lines 9 and 10, of the bill

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17         Section 2.  Subsection (2) of section 440.092, Florida

18  Statutes, is amended to read:

19         440.092  Special requirements for compensability;

20  deviation from employment; subsequent intervening accidents.--

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

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

23  the course of employment whether or not the employer provided

24  transportation if such means of transportation was available

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

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

27  employer. Notwithstanding s. 440.091, an injury suffered by a

28  law enforcement officer, as defined in s. 943.10(1), while

29  going to or coming from work in an official law enforcement

30  vehicle shall be presumed to be an injury arising out of and

31  in the course of employment unless the injury occurred during

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                                                   HOUSE AMENDMENT

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  1  a distinct departure for a nonessential personal errand.

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  5  And the title is amended as follows:

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  8  after the first semicolon, insert:

  9         amending s. 440.092, F.S.; revising provisions

10         relating to special requirements for

11         compensability under Workers' Compensation Law

12         to provide that certain injuries suffered by

13         specified law enforcement officers shall be

14         deemed to be injuries arising out of and in the

15         course of employment; providing an exception;

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