| 1 | The Business 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 certification of swimming instructors; |
| 7 | creating s. 514.072, F.S.; requiring additional |
| 8 | certification of swimming instructors specializing in |
| 9 | training people who have developmental disabilities; |
| 10 | requiring the Dan Marino Foundation, Inc., to develop |
| 11 | certification requirements and a training curriculum and |
| 12 | to submit the certification requirements to the Department |
| 13 | of Health for review; providing deadlines for |
| 14 | certification; providing a remedy for certification |
| 15 | violations; providing an appropriation; providing an |
| 16 | effective date. |
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| 18 | Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: |
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| 20 | Section 1. Section 514.072, Florida Statutes, is created |
| 21 | to read: |
| 22 | 514.072 Certification of swimming instructors for people |
| 23 | who have developmental disabilities required.-- |
| 24 | (1) Any person working at a swimming pool who holds |
| 25 | himself or herself out as a swimming instructor specializing in |
| 26 | training people who have developmental disabilities, as defined |
| 27 | in s. 393.063(10), must be certified by the Dan Marino |
| 28 | Foundation, Inc., in addition to being certified under s. |
| 29 | 514.071. The Dan Marino Foundation, Inc., must develop |
| 30 | certification requirements and a training curriculum for |
| 31 | swimming instructors for people who have developmental |
| 32 | disabilities and must submit the certification requirements to |
| 33 | the Department of Health for review by January 1, 2007. A person |
| 34 | certified under s. 514.071 before July 1, 2007, must meet the |
| 35 | additional certification requirements of this section before |
| 36 | January 1, 2008. A person certified under s. 514.071 on or after |
| 37 | July 1, 2007, must meet the additional certification |
| 38 | requirements of this section within 6 months after receiving |
| 39 | certification under s. 514.071. |
| 40 | (2) In addition to any other remedies available to the |
| 41 | department, the department may sue to enjoin the operation of |
| 42 | any public swimming pool that uses any swimming instructor in |
| 43 | violation of subsection (1). |
| 44 | Section 2. The sum of $535,000, of which $185,000 is |
| 45 | recurring, is appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to the |
| 46 | Department of Health for distribution to the Dan Marino |
| 47 | Foundation, Inc., for the 2006-2007 fiscal year for the purpose |
| 48 | of implementing this act. |
| 49 | Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2006. |