Senate Bill sb1774

    Florida Senate - 2004                                  SB 1774

    By Senator Villalobos





    38-714A-04

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to persons appointed or

  3         employed to work with children; requiring that

  4         each state or governmental subdivision search

  5         the records of sexual predators and sexual

  6         offenders maintained by the Department of Law

  7         Enforcement before appointing or employing a

  8         person to work or volunteer at a park,

  9         playground, day care center, or other place

10         where children regularly congregate;

11         authorizing use of the department's toll-free

12         telephone number or Internet site to conduct

13         the search; providing an effective date.

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

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17         Section 1.  Search of registration information

18  regarding sexual predators and sexual offenders required prior

19  to appointment or employment.--A state agency or governmental

20  subdivision, prior to making any decision to appoint or employ

21  a person to work, whether for compensation or as a volunteer,

22  at any park, playground, day care center, or other place where

23  children regularly congregate, must conduct a search of that

24  person's name or other identifying information against the

25  registration information regarding sexual predators and sexual

26  offenders maintained by the Department of Law Enforcement

27  under section 943.043, Florida Statutes. The agency or

28  governmental subdivision may conduct the search using the

29  toll-free telephone number or the Internet site maintained by

30  the Department of Law Enforcement.

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    Florida Senate - 2004                                  SB 1774
    38-714A-04




 1         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

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 6    Prohibits a state or governmental subdivision from
      appointing or employing a person to work or volunteer at
 7    a park, playground, day care center, or other place where
      children regularly congregate unless the agency or
 8    subdivision has first searched the records of sexual
      predators and sexual offenders maintained by the
 9    Department of Law Enforcement.

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