| 1 | The Environmental Regulation Committee recommends the following: |
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| 3 | Council/Committee Substitute |
| 4 | Remove the entire bill and insert: |
| 5 | A bill to be entitled |
| 6 | An act relating to defibrillators in state parks; creating |
| 7 | s. 258.0165, F.S.; encouraging state parks to have a |
| 8 | functioning automated external defibrillator; requiring |
| 9 | training, maintenance, and location registration; |
| 10 | providing immunity from liability under the Good Samaritan |
| 11 | Act and the Cardiac Arrest Survival Act; authorizing the |
| 12 | Division of Recreation and Parks to adopt rules; providing |
| 13 | an appropriation; 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. Section 258.0165, Florida Statutes, is created |
| 18 | to read: |
| 19 | 258.0165 Defibrillators in state parks.-- |
| 20 | (1) Each state park is encouraged to have on the premises |
| 21 | at all times a functioning automated external defibrillator. |
| 22 | (2) State parks that provide automated external |
| 23 | defibrillators shall ensure that employees and volunteers are |
| 24 | properly trained in accordance with s. 401.2915. |
| 25 | (3) The location of each automated external defibrillator |
| 26 | shall be registered with a local emergency medical services |
| 27 | medical director. |
| 28 | (4) The use of automated external defibrillators by |
| 29 | employees and volunteers shall be covered under the provisions |
| 30 | of ss. 768.13 and 768.1325. |
| 31 | (5) The Division of Recreation and Parks may adopt rules |
| 32 | pursuant to ss. 120.536(1) and 120.54 to implement the |
| 33 | provisions of this section. |
| 34 | Section 2. The sum of $214,000 is appropriated from the |
| 35 | General Revenue Fund to the Division of Recreation and Parks of |
| 36 | the Department of Environmental Protection for the purpose of |
| 37 | implementing this act during the 2005-2006 fiscal year. The |
| 38 | division shall arrange for the purchase of as many automated |
| 39 | external defibrillators as may be purchased with this |
| 40 | appropriation. |
| 41 | Section 3. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law. |