Senate Bill sb1632c1

    Florida Senate - 2004                           CS for SB 1632

    By the Committee on Health, Aging, and Long-Term Care; and
    Senator Hill




    317-1974-04

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to prevention and control of

  3         communicable diseases; amending s. 381.003,

  4         F.S.; requiring the Department of Health to

  5         adopt certain standards applicable to all

  6         public sector employers; providing an exception

  7         for certain public sector employers to certain

  8         blood-borne-pathogen standards adopted by the

  9         Department of Health; requiring the compilation

10         and maintenance of certain information by the

11         department for use by employers; providing an

12         effective date.

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

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16         Section 1.  Subsection (3) is added to section 381.003,

17  Florida Statutes, to read:

18         381.003  Communicable disease and AIDS prevention and

19  control.--

20         (3)  The department shall by rule adopt the

21  blood-borne-pathogen standard set forth in subpart Z of 29

22  C.F.R. part 1910, as amended by Pub. L. No. 106-430, which

23  shall apply to all public sector employers, except public

24  sector employers whose compliance with the standard is

25  required and regulated by federal law. The department shall

26  compile and maintain a list of existing needleless systems and

27  sharps with engineered sharps-injury protection which shall be

28  available to assist employers, including the department and

29  the Department of Corrections, in complying with the

30  applicable requirements of the blood-borne-pathogen standard.

31  The list may be developed from existing sources of

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    Florida Senate - 2004                           CS for SB 1632
    317-1974-04




 1  information, including, without limitation, the United States

 2  Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control

 3  and Prevention, the Occupational Safety and Health

 4  Administration, and the United States Department of Veterans

 5  Affairs.

 6         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1. 2004.

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 8          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
 9                         Senate Bill 1632

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11  The committee substitute provides an exception to the
    blood-borne pathogen standard adopted by the Department of
12  Health for certain public sector employers whose compliance
    with the blood-borne pathogen standards is required and
13  regulated by federal law.

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