Senate Bill sb2426

    Florida Senate - 2006                                  SB 2426

    By Senator Argenziano





    3-354A-06                                          See HB 1319

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to certification of swimming

  3         instructors; creating s. 514.072, F.S.;

  4         requiring additional certification of swimming

  5         instructors for people who have developmental

  6         disabilities; providing a remedy for

  7         certification violations; providing an

  8         appropriation; providing an effective date.

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10  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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12         Section 1.  Section 514.072, Florida Statutes, is

13  created to read:

14         514.072  Certification of swimming instructors for

15  people who have developmental disabilities required.--

16         (1)  Any person working at a public swimming pool as a

17  swimming instructor for people who have developmental

18  disabilities, as defined in s. 393.063(10), must be certified

19  by the Dan Marino Foundation, Inc., in addition to being

20  certified under s. 514.071. A person certified under s.

21  514.071 before July 1, 2006, must meet the additional

22  certification requirements of this section by January 1, 2007.

23  A person certified under s. 514.071 on or after July 1, 2006,

24  must meet the additional certification requirements of this

25  section within 6 months after receiving certification under s.

26  514.071.

27         (2)  In addition to any other remedies available to the

28  department, the department may sue to enjoin the operation of

29  any public swimming pool that uses any swimming instructor in

30  violation of subsection (1).

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    Florida Senate - 2006                                  SB 2426
    3-354A-06                                          See HB 1319




 1         Section 2.  The sum of $535,000 is appropriated from

 2  the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Health for the

 3  2006-2007 fiscal year for the purpose of implementing this

 4  act, to be distributed as follows: $185,000 in recurring

 5  revenue to the Dan Marino Foundation, Inc., for swimming

 6  certification; $150,000 in nonrecurring revenue to Broward

 7  County Parks and Recreation for the SWIM Central Special Needs

 8  Certification, and $200,000 in nonrecurring revenue to the

 9  Weston YMCA for special needs modifications and enhancement

10  for the developmentally disabled.

11         Section 3.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2006.

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