SENATE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. CS for CS for SB 784
    Amendment No. ___   Barcode 865476
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11  Senator Wasserman Schultz moved the following amendment:
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13         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 
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17         Section 20.  (1)  The Institute of Food and
18  Agricultural Sciences of the University of Florida shall
19  conduct a study, in conjunction with the Department of Health,
20  the University of South Florida Environmental and Occupational
21  Health Department, and wood product trade industry groups,
22  concerning the human health risks, if any, associated with the
23  use of wood products containing chromated copper arzenate
24  (CCA) in public playground equipment purchased with public
25  funds. Such study shall only examine wood products used in
26  public playground equipment, including soils adjacent to such
27  public playground equipment.
28         (2)  For purposes of this section, "playground
29  equipment" shall mean swings, slides, climbing equipment,
30  merry-go-rounds, seesaws, spring rockers, trampolines, and
31  other similar equipment, intended for use primarily by
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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. CS for CS for SB 784
    Amendment No. ___   Barcode 865476
 1  children, and shall include stairways, ramps, ladders,
 2  handrails, platforms, guardrails, and protective barriers that
 3  support, provide access to, or act as safety barriers, for
 4  such equipment.  It does not include buildings, docks, picnic
 5  tables, and other associated structures, which may be located
 6  near playgrounds or adjacent recreation areas.
 7         (3)  The Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences
 8  shall issue a report and make recommendations to the President
 9  of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives
10  by March 1, 2002.
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12  (Redesignate subsequent sections.)
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16  And the title is amended as follows:
17         On page 2, line 18, after the semicolon
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20         requiring a study of the effects on humans of
21         chromated copper arsenate in publicly funded
22         playgrounds; defining playground equipment;
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