Florida Senate - 2005                      COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. CS for SB 634
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11  The Committee on Regulated Industries (King) recommended the
12  following amendment:
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14         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 
15         On page 1, between lines 30 and 31,
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18         Section 2.  Paragraph (f) of subsection (3) of section
19  489.537, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
20         489.537  Application of this part.--
21         (3)  Nothing in this act limits the power of a
22  municipality or county:
23         (f)  To require that one electrical journeyman, who has
24  obtained a certificate of competency from a registered
25  apprenticeship program is a graduate of the Institute of
26  Applied Technology in Construction Excellence or a license
27  licensed pursuant to s. 489.5335, prior to year 2002, be
28  present on any non-residential an industrial or commercial new
29  construction site with a facility of 15,000 50,000 gross
30  square feet or more when electrical work in excess of 98 77
31  volts is being performed in order to supervise or perform such
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    Florida Senate - 2005                      COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. CS for SB 634
                        Barcode 911618
 1  work, except as provided in s. 489.503. This section does not
 2  apply to single-family residential construction or any
 3  commercial residential construction that is three stories or
 4  less.  Any person licensed as a Journeyman Electrician in the
 5  state of Florida, prior to year 2002, and whose license has
 6  expired, shall have their journeyman certificate reinstated
 7  without retesting.  THe local building official shall issue a
 8  thirty(30) day temporary waiver for this journeyman
 9  requirement for the purposes of issuing a permit, if proof is
10  provided that no journeyman is available for employment on the
11  construction site.  This section of law becomes effective July
12  1, 2007.
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16  And the title is amended as follows:
17         On page 1, line 9, after the semicolon
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20         requiring an electric journeyman with
21         certificate of electric competency be present
22         on non-residential construction sites;
23         providing for reinstatement of license;
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