Florida Senate - 2009 SENATOR AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS for CS for SB 2262
Barcode 355532
LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Senate . House
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Floor: 3/AD/2R .
04/29/2009 04:16 PM .
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Senator Gaetz moved the following:
1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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3 Between lines 1942 and 1943
4 insert:
5 Section 59. Paragraph (k) is added to subsection (2) of
6 section 20.165, Florida Statutes, to read:
7 20.165 Department of Business and Professional Regulation.
8 There is created a Department of Business and Professional
9 Regulation.
10 (2) The following divisions of the Department of Business
11 and Professional Regulation are established:
12 (k) Division of Service Operations.
13 Section 60. Paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section
14 455.217, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
15 455.217 Examinations.—This section shall be read in
16 conjunction with the appropriate practice act associated with
17 each regulated profession under this chapter.
18 (1) The Division of Service Operations Technology of the
19 Department of Business and Professional Regulation shall
20 provide, contract, or approve services for the development,
21 preparation, administration, scoring, score reporting, and
22 evaluation of all examinations. The division shall seek the
23 advice of the appropriate board in providing such services.
24 (a) The department, acting in conjunction with the Division
25 of Service Operations Technology and the Division of Real
26 Estate, as appropriate, shall ensure that examinations
27 adequately and reliably measure an applicant’s ability to
28 practice the profession regulated by the department. After an
29 examination developed or approved by the department has been
30 administered, the board or department may reject any question
31 which does not reliably measure the general areas of competency
32 specified in the rules of the board or department, when there is
33 no board. The department shall use qualified outside
34 professional testing vendors services for the development,
35 preparation, and evaluation of examinations, when such services
36 are economically and viably available and approved by the
37 department board.
38 Section 61. Paragraph (h) of subsection (2) of section
39 471.003, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
40 471.003 Qualifications for practice; exemptions.—
41 (2) The following persons are not required to be licensed
42 under the provisions of this chapter as a licensed engineer:
43 (h) Any electrical, plumbing, air-conditioning, or
44 mechanical contractor whose practice includes the design and
45 fabrication of electrical, plumbing, air-conditioning, or
46 mechanical systems, respectively, which she or he installs by
47 virtue of a license issued under chapter 489, under part I of
48 chapter 553, or under any special act or ordinance when working
49 on any construction project which:
50 1. Requires an electrical or plumbing or air-conditioning
51 and refrigeration system with a value of $125,000 $50,000 or
52 less; and
53 2.a. Requires an aggregate service capacity of 600 amperes
54 (240 volts) or less on a residential electrical system or 800
55 amperes (240 volts) or less on a commercial or industrial
56 electrical system;
57 b. Requires a plumbing system with fewer than 250 fixture
58 units; or
59 c. Requires a heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning
60 system not to exceed a 15-ton-per-system capacity, or if the
61 project is designed to accommodate 100 or fewer persons.
62 Section 62. The Office of Program Policy Analysis and
63 Government Accountability shall perform a study and make
64 recommendations to the Legislature by December 1, 2009,
65 regarding the enactment of laws to provide for protection and
66 remedies from existing and unregulated online poker activities,
67 which currently lack oversight and consumer protection under s.
68 849.086, Florida Statutes.
69 Section 63. Effective upon this act becoming a law, the
70 amendments made by this act to ss. 489.128(1)(a) and
71 489.532(1)(a), Florida Statutes, shall apply retroactively to
72 contracts entered into on or after October 1, 2000, and shall
73 apply retroactively to all actions pending when this act becomes
74 a law.
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77 And the title is amended as follows:
78 Between lines 212 and 213
79 insert:
80 amending s. 20.165, F.S.; creating the Division of Service
81 Operations of the department; amending s. 455.217, F.S.;
82 conforming provisions and transferring to the Division of
83 Service Operations from the Division of Technology certain
84 responsibilities related to examinations; revising certain
85 requirements for the department concerning the use of outside
86 vendors for the development, preparation, and evaluation of
87 examinations; amending s. 471.003, F.S.; revises the types of
88 construction projects for which certain contractors are exempt
89 from licensure as an engineer; requiring that the Office of
90 Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability perform a
91 study and make certain recommendations to the Legislature by a
92 specified date regarding the enactment of laws to provide for
93 protection and remedies from certain online poker activities;
94 providing for retroactive application of specified provisions;