HOUSE AMENDMENT

                                                   Bill No. HB 705

    Amendment No. 01 (for drafter's use only)

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11  The Committee on Judicial Oversight offered the following:

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13         Amendment 

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15  remove:  all of said lines

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17  and insert:  determine the applicant's eligibility for

18  employment.  This section is not intended to preempt or

19  prevent any other background screening, including but not

20  limited to criminal history record checks, that a county may

21  lawfully undertake.

22         Section 2.  Section 166.0442, Florida Statutes, is

23  created to read:

24         166.0442  Criminal history record checks for certain

25  municipal employees, contractors, and

26  appointees.--Notwithstanding chapter 435, a municipality may

27  require, by ordinance, employment screening for any position

28  of municipal employment or appointment deemed to be critical

29  to security or public safety by the governing body of the

30  municipality, or for any private contractor, employee of a

31  private contractor, vendor, repair person, or delivery person

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                                                   HOUSE AMENDMENT

                                                   Bill No. HB 705

    Amendment No. 01 (for drafter's use only)





  1  who has access to any public facility or publicly operated

  2  facility that is deemed to have critical security or public

  3  safety status by the governing body of the municipality. The

  4  ordinance shall require each person applying for any such

  5  position to be fingerprinted. These fingerprints shall be

  6  submitted to the Department of Law Enforcement for a state

  7  criminal history record check and to the Federal Bureau of

  8  Investigation for a national criminal history record check.

  9  The information obtained from the criminal history record

10  checks conducted pursuant to the ordinance may be used by the

11  municipality to determine the applicant's eligibility for

12  employment.  This section is not intended to preempt or

13  prevent any other background screening, including but not

14  limited to criminal history record checks, that a municipality

15  may lawfully undertake.

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