| 1 | The Health & Families Council 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 swimming pools; creating s. 514.072, |
| 7 | F.S.; requiring additional certification of swimming |
| 8 | instructors specializing in training people who have |
| 9 | developmental disabilities; requiring the Dan Marino |
| 10 | Foundation, Inc., to develop certification requirements |
| 11 | and a training curriculum and to submit the certification |
| 12 | requirements to the Department of Health for review; |
| 13 | providing deadlines for certification; amending s. |
| 14 | 514.075, F.S.; deleting an exception to the requirement |
| 15 | that a public pool be serviced by a certified technician; |
| 16 | providing a contingent 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.--Any person |
| 24 | working at a swimming pool who holds himself or herself out as a |
| 25 | swimming instructor specializing in training people who have |
| 26 | developmental disabilities, as defined in s. 393.063(10), may be |
| 27 | certified by the Dan Marino Foundation, Inc., in addition to |
| 28 | being certified under s. 514.071. The Dan Marino Foundation, |
| 29 | Inc., must develop certification requirements and a training |
| 30 | curriculum for swimming instructors for people who have |
| 31 | developmental disabilities and must submit the certification |
| 32 | requirements to the Department of Health for review by January |
| 33 | 1, 2007. A person certified under s. 514.071 before July 1, |
| 34 | 2007, must meet the additional certification requirements of |
| 35 | this section before January 1, 2008. A person certified under s. |
| 36 | 514.071 on or after July 1, 2007, must meet the additional |
| 37 | certification requirements of this section within 6 months after |
| 38 | receiving certification under s. 514.071. |
| 39 | Section 2. Section 514.075, Florida Statutes, is amended |
| 40 | to read: |
| 41 | 514.075 Public pool service technician; |
| 42 | certification.--The department may require that a public pool, |
| 43 | as defined in s. 514.011, be serviced by a person certified as a |
| 44 | pool service technician. To be certified, an individual must |
| 45 | demonstrate knowledge of public pools which includes, but is not |
| 46 | limited to: pool cleaning; general pool maintenance; source of |
| 47 | the water supply; bacteriological, chemical, and physical |
| 48 | quality of water; and water purification, testing, treatment, |
| 49 | and disinfection procedures. The department may, by rule, |
| 50 | establish the requirement for the certification course and |
| 51 | course approval. The department shall deem certified any |
| 52 | individual who is certified by a course of national recognition |
| 53 | or any person licensed under s. 489.105(3)(j), (k), or (l). This |
| 54 | requirement does not apply to a person, or the direct employee |
| 55 | of a person, permitted as a public pool operator under s. |
| 56 | 514.031. |
| 57 | Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2006, only |
| 58 | if a specific appropriation to the Department of Health to fund |
| 59 | the Dan Marino Foundation, Inc., is made in the General |
| 60 | Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2006-2007. |