SENATE AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS for CS for SB 206
Amendment No. ___ Barcode 085782
CHAMBER ACTION
Senate House
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11 Senator Jones moved the following amendment:
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13 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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17 (1) For purposes of this section, the term:
18 (a) "Communication access realtime translation" means
19 the instant translation of the spoken word into English text
20 using information technology in which the text appears on a
21 computer monitor or other display.
22 (b) "Coordinating council" means the Florida
23 Coordinating Council for the Deaf and the Hard of Hearing.
24 (c) "Deaf" means having a hearing impairment of such
25 severity that an individual must depend on visual or tactile
26 methods, or both, to communicate.
27 (d) "Hard of hearing" means having a hearing
28 impairment that results in a loss of hearing functions to an
29 individual and in which the individual: relies on residual
30 hearing that may be sufficient to process linguistic
31 information through audition with or without amplification
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SENATE AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS for CS for SB 206
Amendment No. ___ Barcode 085782
1 under favorable listening conditions; depends on visual
2 methods to communicate; depends on assistive listening
3 devices; or has an impairment with other auditory disabling
4 conditions.
5 (e) "Interpreter" means a provider of accessible and
6 effective communication between and among individuals who are
7 deaf or hard of hearing and between and among such individuals
8 and other persons. This process includes, but is not limited
9 to, communication through American Sign Language and spoken
10 English. It may also involve various other modalities that
11 involve visual, gestural, and tactile methods.
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13 For purposes of this section, individuals with any level of
14 loss of hearing provided in the definitions in this subsection
15 are included in references to deaf or hard of hearing
16 individuals.
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18 (Renumber subsequent subsections.)
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22 And the title is amended as follows:
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