HOUSE AMENDMENT
                                                   Bill No. HB 805   Barcode 901589
    Amendment No. ___ (for drafter's use only)
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11  The Committee on Business Regulation offered the following:
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13         Amendment (with title amendment) 
14  Remove from the bill:  Everything after the enacting clause
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16  and insert in lieu thereof:  
17         Section 1.  Subsection (2) of section 489.111, Florida
18  Statutes, is amended to read:
19         489.111  Licensure by examination.--
20         (2)  A person shall be eligible for licensure by
21  examination if the person:
22         (a)  Is 18 years of age;
23         (b)  Is of good moral character; and
24         (c)  Meets eligibility requirements according to one of
25  the following criteria:
26         1.  Has received a baccalaureate degree from an
27  accredited 4-year college in the appropriate field of
28  engineering, architecture, or building construction and has 1
29  year of proven experience in the category in which the person
30  seeks to qualify. For the purpose of this part, a minimum of
31  2,000 person-hours shall be used in determining full-time
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 1  equivalency.
 2         2.  Has a total of at least 4 years of active
 3  experience as a worker who has learned the trade by serving an
 4  apprenticeship as a skilled worker who is able to command the
 5  rate of a mechanic in the particular trade or as a foreman who
 6  is in charge of a group of workers and usually is responsible
 7  to a superintendent or a contractor or his or her equivalent,
 8  provided, however, that at least 1 year of active experience
 9  shall be as a foreman.
10         3.  Has a combination of not less than 1 year of
11  experience as a foreman and not less than 3 years of credits
12  for any accredited college-level courses; has a combination of
13  not less than 1 year of experience as a skilled worker, 1 year
14  of experience as a foreman, and not less than 2 years of
15  credits for any accredited college-level courses; or has a
16  combination of not less than 2 years of experience as a
17  skilled worker, 1 year of experience as a foreman, and not
18  less than 1 year of credits for any accredited college-level
19  courses. For the number of years of credits for any accredited
20  college-level courses, the applicant shall show completion of
21  an equal number of courses in the appropriate field of
22  engineering, architecture, or building construction. All
23  junior college or community college-level courses shall be
24  considered accredited college-level courses.
25         4.a.  An active certified residential contractor is
26  eligible to take the building contractors' examination if he
27  or she possesses a minimum of 3 years of proven experience in
28  the classification in which he or she is certified.
29         b.  An active certified residential contractor is
30  eligible to take the general contractors' examination if he or
31  she possesses a minimum of 4 years of proven experience in the
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 1  classification in which he or she is certified.
 2         c.  An active certified building contractor is eligible
 3  to take the general contractors' examination if he or she
 4  possesses a minimum of 4 years of proven experience in the
 5  classification in which he or she is certified.
 6         5.a.  An active certified air-conditioning Class C
 7  contractor is eligible to take the air-conditioning Class B
 8  contractors' examination if he or she possesses a minimum of 3
 9  years of proven experience in the classification in which he
10  or she is certified.
11         b.  An active certified air-conditioning Class C
12  contractor is eligible to take the air-conditioning Class A
13  contractors' examination if he or she possesses a minimum of 4
14  years of proven experience in the classification in which he
15  or she is certified.
16         c.  An active certified air-conditioning Class B
17  contractor is eligible to take the air-conditioning Class A
18  contractors' examination if he or she possesses a minimum of 1
19  year of proven experience in the classification in which he or
20  she is certified.
21         6.a.  An active certified swimming pool servicing
22  contractor is eligible to take the residential swimming pool
23  contractors' examination if he or she possesses a minimum of 3
24  years of proven experience in the classification in which he
25  or she is certified.
26         b.  An active certified swimming pool servicing
27  contractor is eligible to take the swimming pool commercial
28  contractors' examination if he or she possesses a minimum of 4
29  years of proven experience in the classification in which he
30  or she is certified.
31         c.  An active certified residential swimming pool
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 1  contractor is eligible to take the commercial swimming pool
 2  contractors' examination if he or she possesses a minimum of 1
 3  year of proven experience in the classification in which he or
 4  she is certified.
 5         d.  An applicant is eligible to take the swimming
 6  pool/spa servicing contractor's examination if he or she has
 7  satisfactorily completed 60 hours of instruction in courses
 8  related to the scope of work covered by that license and
 9  approved by the Construction Industry Licensing Board and has
10  two years of proven experience related to the scope of work of
11  such a contractor.
12         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2001.
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16  And the title is amended as follows:
17         On page 1, lines 2-7,
18  remove from the title of the bill:  all of said lines
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20  and insert in lieu thereof:
21         An act relating to swimming pool/spa servicing
22         contractors; amending s. 489.111, F.S.;
23         providing eligibility requirements to take the
24         licensure examination for the swimming pool/spa
25         servicing contractor's license; providing an
26         effective date.
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