| 1 | The Committee on State Administration recommends the following: |
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| 3 | Committee Substitute |
| 4 | Remove the entire bill and insert: |
| 5 | A bill to be entitled |
| 6 | An act relating to water management district employees, |
| 7 | appointees, and contractors; creating s. 373.6055, F.S.; |
| 8 | authorizing water management districts to require the |
| 9 | screening of an employee, appointee, or applicant for a |
| 10 | position critical to security or public safety; |
| 11 | authorizing the screening of a contractor or an employee |
| 12 | thereof, vendor, repair person, or delivery person who has |
| 13 | access to certain public facilities; requiring that |
| 14 | fingerprints of applicants and employees be submitted to |
| 15 | the Department of Law Enforcement and the Federal Bureau |
| 16 | of Investigation for a check of criminal history records; |
| 17 | authorizing the county or municipality to use information |
| 18 | obtained from a criminal history record check to determine |
| 19 | a person's 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. Section 373.6055, Florida Statutes, is created |
| 25 | to read: |
| 26 | 373.6055 Criminal history record checks for certain water |
| 27 | management district employees, appointees, and contractors.--A |
| 28 | water management district is authorized to conduct employment |
| 29 | screening for any position of water management district |
| 30 | employment or appointment which the water management district |
| 31 | finds is critical to security or public safety, or for any |
| 32 | private contractor, employee of a private contractor, vendor, |
| 33 | repair person, or delivery person who has access to any public |
| 34 | facility or publicly operated facility the water management |
| 35 | district finds is critical to security or safety. The water |
| 36 | management district may require each person applying for, or |
| 37 | continuing employment in, any such position or having access to |
| 38 | any such facility to be fingerprinted. The fingerprints shall be |
| 39 | submitted to the Department of Law Enforcement for a state |
| 40 | criminal history record check and to the Federal Bureau of |
| 41 | Investigation for a national criminal history record check. The |
| 42 | information obtained from the criminal history record checks |
| 43 | conducted pursuant to the policy may be used by the water |
| 44 | management district to determine an applicant's eligibility for |
| 45 | employment or appointment and to determine an employee's |