Senate Bill sb0678c1

    Florida Senate - 2006                            CS for SB 678

    By the Committee on Domestic Security; and Senator Bullard





    583-1811-06

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the use of state facilities

  3         as emergency shelters; amending s. 252.385,

  4         F.S.; providing for use of certain state

  5         facilities as emergency shelters; directing the

  6         Department of Management Services to list

  7         state-owned facilities that are suitable for

  8         use as emergency shelters; providing an

  9         effective date.

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

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13         Section 1.  Paragraph (a) of subsection (4) of section

14  252.385, Florida Statutes is amended, and paragraph (d) is

15  added to that subsection, to read:

16         252.385  Public shelter space.--

17         (4)(a)  Public facilities, including schools,

18  postsecondary education facilities, and other facilities owned

19  or leased by the state or local governments, but excluding

20  hospitals or nursing homes, which are suitable for use as

21  public hurricane evacuation shelters shall be made available

22  at the request of the local emergency management agencies.

23  Such agencies shall coordinate with the appropriate school

24  board, university, community college, state agency, or local

25  governing board when requesting the use of such facilities as

26  public hurricane evacuation shelters.

27         (d)  The Department of Management Services shall

28  include in the annual state facilities inventory report

29  required under ss. 216.015-216.016 a separate list of

30  state-owned facilities, including, but not limited to, meeting

31  halls, auditoriums, conference centers, and training centers

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    Florida Senate - 2006                            CS for SB 678
    583-1811-06




 1  that have unoccupied space suitable for use as an emergency

 2  shelter during a storm or other catastrophic event. Facilities

 3  must be listed by the county and municipality where the

 4  facility is located and must be made available in accordance

 5  with paragraph (a). As used in this paragraph, the term

 6  "suitable for use as an emergency shelter" means meeting the

 7  standards set by the American Red Cross for a hurricane

 8  evacuation shelter, and the term "unoccupied" means vacant due

 9  to suspended operation or nonuse. The list must be updated by

10  May 31 of each year.

11         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2006.

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13          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
14                              SB 678

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16  This committee substitute requires the Department of
    Management Services to include a separate list of state-owned
17  facilities having unoccupied space suitable for emergency
    shelter use in its annual facilities inventory report. The
18  term "unoccupied" is defined as vacant due to suspended
    operations or nonuse.
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    Section 252.385, F.S., is also amended to add the term "state
20  agency" to the list of organizations coordinating with local
    emergency management agencies in making public building
21  available as public shelters.

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