Florida Senate - 2006                      COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. CS for SB 2470
                        Barcode 920808
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11  The Committee on Education (Klein) recommended the following
12  amendment:
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14         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 
15         On page 18, between lines 21 and 22,
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18         Section 5.  Paragraph (e) of subsection (2) of section
19  39.201, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
20         39.201  Mandatory reports of child abuse, abandonment,
21  or neglect; mandatory reports of death; central abuse
22  hotline.--
23         (2)
24         (e)  Reports involving known or suspected institutional
25  child abuse or neglect shall be made and received in the same
26  manner as all other reports made pursuant to this section.
27  Notwithstanding subsection (1), if the report is of an
28  instance of known or suspected child abuse by an employee of a
29  public school, the department may not conduct a protective
30  investigation and the call must immediately be electronically
31  transferred to the appropriate county sheriff's office or
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Florida Senate - 2006 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Bill No. CS for SB 2470 Barcode 920808 1 other appropriate law enforcement agency for action. 2 3 (Redesignate subsequent sections.) 4 5 6 ================ T I T L E A M E N D M E N T =============== 7 And the title is amended as follows: 8 On page 1, line 30, after the first semicolon, 9 10 insert: 11 amending s. 39.201, F.S.; requiring the 12 Department of Children and Family Services to 13 immediately transfer to a law enforcement 14 agency a report of known or suspected child 15 abuse by an employee of a public school and not 16 conduct its own investigation; 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 2 8:52 AM 04/21/06 s2470c1c-ed30-t01