Florida Senate - 2011                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SPB 7226
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: FAV            .                                
                  03/31/2011           .                                
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       The Committee on Military Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security
       (Altman) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Section 252.353, Florida Statutes, is created to
    6  read:
    7         252.353 Emergency management; public shelters.—
    8         (1) Beginning January 31, 2012, the division shall include
    9  a report on the compliance by school districts with the public
   10  shelter design criteria developed pursuant to s. 1013.372(1).
   11  The report shall be incorporated into the statewide emergency
   12  shelter plan required by s. 252.385(2)(b). The reporting period
   13  shall be two years as required for the statewide emergency
   14  shelter plan. The statewide emergency shelter plan shall be
   15  submitted to the Governor, President of the Senate, the Speaker
   16  of the House of Representatives, and the Cabinet. The report
   17  must provide, at a minimum:
   18         (a) A listing by county of the number of educational
   19  facilities that were permitted for new construction by each
   20  school district during the reporting period, and that met or
   21  failed to meet the public shelter design criteria developed
   22  pursuant to s. 1013.372(1).
   23         (b) The composition of general population shelters and
   24  special needs shelters that were permitted for those educational
   25  facilities and that met the infrastructure standards for public
   26  shelters during the reporting year.
   27         (c) An explanation of the exemption process for each newly
   28  permitted educational facility that was granted an exemption
   29  from the public shelter design criteria during the reporting
   30  period, including an explanation of the circumstances that
   31  warranted the exemption .
   32         (d) Information on school district facilities that were
   33  retrofitted during the reporting year.
   34         (2) The division shall create and administer a registry
   35  that is accessible from the division’s website and that contains
   36  information on school district compliance with the public
   37  shelter design criteria developed pursuant to s. 1013.372(1).
   38  The registry shall be available on the website by January 31,
   39  2012, and must include data beginning with January 1, 2011.
   40         (3) By November 30, 2011, and each odd-numbered year
   41  thereafter, each county emergency management office shall
   42  prepare and submit a report to the division on school district
   43  facilities within the county which addresses the reporting
   44  requirements in subsection (1).
   45         (4) The district school boards and the Department of
   46  Education are responsible for coordinating and implementing the
   47  provsions of this section with the division and county emergency
   48  management offices
   49         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2011.
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   51  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   52         And the title is amended as follows:
   53         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   54  and insert:
   55                        A bill to be entitled                      
   56         An act relating to emergency public shelters; creating
   57         s. 252.353, F.S.; requiring the Division of Emergency
   58         Management to submit a report to the Governor and
   59         Legislature on compliance by school districts with
   60         public shelter requirements for educational
   61         facilities; requiring that the division create and
   62         administer a registry of newly constructed public
   63         shelters; requiring each county emergency management
   64         office to submit an annual report to the division on
   65         newly constructed educational facilities; requiring th
   66         school boards and the Department of Education to
   67         coodinate and implement the provisions of this act
   68         with the division and county emergency management
   69         offices; providing an effective date.