| 1 | A bill to be entitled |
| 2 | An act relating to professional engineer liability; |
| 3 | creating s. 768.1346, F.S.; precluding malpractice claims |
| 4 | against licensed professional engineers who provide |
| 5 | certain services without compensation to search and rescue |
| 6 | teams during declared emergencies if certain conditions |
| 7 | are met; 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. Section 768.1346, Florida Statutes, is created |
| 12 | to read: |
| 13 | 768.1346 Professional malpractice; rescue structures |
| 14 | specialist immunity.--No person shall have a claim for |
| 15 | professional malpractice against a licensed professional |
| 16 | engineer who provides services without compensation to a local, |
| 17 | state, or federal search and rescue team during the period of a |
| 18 | declared emergency if the professional services arouse out of |
| 19 | the emergency and the professional acted as an ordinary |
| 20 | reasonably prudent member of the profession would have acted |
| 21 | under the same or similar circumstances. |
| 22 | Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2008. |