Senate Bill sb1694

    Florida Senate - 2001                                  SB 1694

    By Senator King





    8-1123-01                                               See HB

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to total and permanently

  3         disabled persons; amending ss. 196.012 and

  4         196.101, F.S.; reducing the number of

  5         physicians necessary to certify a total and

  6         permanent disability for homestead exemption

  7         purposes; providing an 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 (11) of section 196.012, Florida

12  Statutes, is amended to read:

13         196.012  Definitions.--For the purpose of this chapter,

14  the following terms are defined as follows, except where the

15  context clearly indicates otherwise:

16         (11)  "Totally and permanently disabled person" means a

17  person who is currently certified by a two licensed physician

18  physicians of this state who are professionally unrelated, by

19  the United States Department of Veterans Affairs or its

20  predecessor, or by the Social Security Administration, to be

21  totally and permanently disabled.

22         Section 2.  Subsection (3) of section 196.101, Florida

23  Statutes, is amended to read:

24         196.101  Exemption for totally and permanently disabled

25  persons.--

26         (3)  The production by any totally and permanently

27  disabled person entitled to the exemption in subsection (1) or

28  subsection (2) of a certificate of such disability from a two

29  licensed doctor doctors of this state or from the United

30  States Department of Veterans Affairs or its predecessor to

31  the property appraiser of the county wherein the property

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    Florida Senate - 2001                                  SB 1694
    8-1123-01                                               See HB




  1  lies, is prima facie evidence of the fact that he or she is

  2  entitled to such exemption.

  3         Section 3.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

  4  law.

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  7                          HOUSE SUMMARY

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      Reduces from two to one the number of physicians required
  9    to certify a person as totally and permanently disabled
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