Senate Bill sb0954

    Florida Senate - 2002                                   SB 954

    By Senator Smith





    5-844-02

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to county and municipal

  3         employees and contractors; authorizing a county

  4         or municipality to require, by ordinance, the

  5         screening of an employee, appointee, or

  6         applicant for employment or appointment to a

  7         position that is critical to security or public

  8         safety; authorizing the screening of a

  9         contractor, vendor, repair person, or delivery

10         person who has access to public facilities that

11         are critical to security or public safety;

12         requiring that fingerprints of applicants and

13         employees be submitted to the Department of Law

14         Enforcement and the Federal Bureau of

15         Investigation for a check of criminal history

16         records; authorizing the county or municipality

17         to use information obtained from a criminal

18         history record check to determine a person's

19         eligibility for employment or appointment;

20         providing an effective date.

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22  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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24         Section 1.  Criminal history record checks for certain

25  county employees and appointees.--Notwithstanding chapter 435,

26  Florida Statutes, a county may require, by ordinance,

27  employment screening for any position of county employment or

28  appointment which the governing body of the county finds is

29  critical to security or public safety, or for any private

30  contractor, employee of a private contractor, vendor, repair

31  person, or delivery person who has access to any public

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  1  facility or publicly operated facility that the governing body

  2  of the county finds is critical to security or public safety.

  3  The ordinance must require each person applying for, or

  4  continuing employment in, any such position or having access

  5  to any such facility to be fingerprinted. The fingerprints

  6  shall be submitted to the Department of Law Enforcement for a

  7  state criminal history record check and to the Federal Bureau

  8  of 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  county to determine an applicant's eligibility for employment

12  or appointment and to determine an employee's eligibility for

13  continued employment.

14         Section 2.  Criminal history record checks for certain

15  municipal employees and appointees.--Notwithstanding chapter

16  435, Florida Statutes, a municipality may require, by

17  ordinance, employment screening for any position of municipal

18  employment or appointment which the governing body of the

19  municipality finds is critical to security or public safety,

20  or for any private contractor, employee of a private

21  contractor, vendor, repair person, or delivery person who has

22  access to any public facility or publicly operated facility

23  that the governing body of the municipality finds is critical

24  to security or public safety. The ordinance must require each

25  person applying for, or continuing employment in, any such

26  position or having access to any such facility to be

27  fingerprinted. The fingerprints shall be submitted to the

28  Department of Law Enforcement for a state criminal history

29  record check and to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a

30  national criminal history record check. The information

31  obtained from the criminal history record checks conducted

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  1  pursuant to the ordinance may be used by the municipality to

  2  determine an applicant's eligibility for employment or

  3  appointment and to determine an employee's eligibility for

  4  continued employment.

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

  6  law.

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  9                          SENATE SUMMARY

10    Authorizes a county or municipality to require, by
      ordinance, that an employee, appointee, or applicant for
11    employment or appointment be screened if the position for
      which the person is applying is critical to security or
12    public safety. Authorizes a county or municipality to
      screen a contractor, vendor, repair person, or delivery
13    person if such person has access to public facilities
      that are critical to security or public safety. Provides
14    that the ordinance must require that fingerprints of
      applicants and employees be submitted to the Department
15    of Law Enforcement and the Federal Bureau of
      Investigation for a check of criminal history records.
16    Provides that the county or municipality may use
      information obtained from a criminal history record check
17    to determine a person's eligibility for employment or
      appointment.
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