HB 1185

1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to water management district employees,
3	appointees, and contractors; creating s. 373.6055, F.S.;
4	authorizing water management districts to require the
5	screening of an employee, appointee, or applicant for a
6	position critical to security or public safety;
7	authorizing the screening of a contractor or an employee
8	thereof, vendor, repair person, or delivery person who has
9	access to certain public facilities; requiring that
10	fingerprints of applicants and employees be submitted to
11	the Department of Law Enforcement and the Federal Bureau
12	of Investigation for a check of criminal history records;
13	authorizing the county or municipality to use information
14	obtained from a criminal history record check to determine
15	a person's eligibility for employment or appointment;
16	providing an effective date.
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18	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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20	Section 1.  Section 373.6055, Florida Statutes, is created
21	to read:
22	373.6055  Criminal history record checks for certain water
23	management district employees, appointees, and
24	contractors.--Notwithstanding chapter 435, a water management
25	district is authorized to conduct employment screening for any
26	position of water management district employment or appointment
27	which the water management district finds is critical to
28	security or public safety, or for any private contractor,
29	employee of a private contractor, vendor, repair person, or
30	delivery person who has access to any public facility or
31	publicly operated facility the water management district finds
32	is critical to security or safety. The water management district
33	may require each person applying for, or continuing employment
34	in, any such position or having access to any such facility to
35	be fingerprinted. The fingerprints shall be submitted to the
36	Department of Law Enforcement for a state criminal history
37	record check and to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a
38	national criminal history record check. The information obtained
39	from the criminal history record checks conducted pursuant to
40	the policy may be used by the water management district to
41	determine an applicant?s eligibility for employment or
42	appointment and to determine an employee?s eligibility for
43	continued employment. This section is not intended to preempt or
44	prevent any other background screening, including, but not
45	limited to, criminal history background checks, that a water
46	management district may lawfully undertake.
47	Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.

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