HB 1419

1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to scuba diving instructional facilities;
3	amending s. 1005.06, F.S.; providing that certain scuba
4	diving instructional facilities are not under the
5	jurisdiction or purview of the Commission for Independent
6	Education and are not required to obtain licensure;
7	providing an effective date.
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9	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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11	Section 1.  Paragraph (h) is added to subsection (1) of
12	section 1005.06, Florida Statutes, to read:
13	1005.06  Institutions not under the jurisdiction or purview
14	of the commission.--
15	(1)  Except as otherwise provided in law, the following
16	institutions are not under the jurisdiction or purview of the
17	commission and are not required to obtain licensure:
18	(h)  A scuba diving instructional facility that is approved
19	or certified by a recognized dive training organization whose
20	standards have been evaluated and approved by the commission as
21	standards substantially equivalent to the licensure standards of
22	the commission. For purposes of this paragraph, a recognized
23	dive training organization is an organization that publishes
24	definitive courses of recreational diver instruction, courses
25	for the training of recreational diver instructors, and
26	instructor standards of conduct and training procedures.
27	Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2006.

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