Florida Senate - 2012                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1866
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                              LEGISLATIVE ACTION                        
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  02/03/2012           .                                
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       The Committee on Transportation (Latvala) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Between lines 3611 and 3612
    4  insert:
    5         Section 72. Any governmental unit that is authorized to
    6  regulate the operation of public vehicles for hire and other
    7  for-hire transportation within its geographic boundaries may
    8  request and receive criminal history record information for the
    9  purpose of screening applicants for licenses and for-hire
   10  vehicle driver licenses and pay a fee for any such record. Such
   11  record information may include a national criminal history
   12  records check with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The
   13  fingerprints may be submitted by the governmental unit to the
   14  Department of Law Enforcement for state processing, and the
   15  department shall forward such fingerprints to the Federal Bureau
   16  of Investigation for a national criminal history records check.
   17  All costs associated with transmittal and processing shall be
   18  borne by the governmental unit, the employer, or the person who
   19  is the subject of the background check. The department shall
   20  submit an invoice to the governmental unit for the fingerprints
   21  submitted each month. The governmental unit shall screen
   22  background results to determine if an applicant meets its
   23  licensure requirements.
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   25  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   26         And the title is amended as follows:
   27         Delete line 285
   28  and insert:
   29         assistance; authorizing governmental units that
   30         regulate the operation of vehicles for public hire or
   31         other for-hire transportation to request and receive
   32         criminal history record information for the purpose of
   33         screening applicants; requiring that the costs
   34         associated with the transmittal and processing of such
   35         information be borne by the governmental unit, the
   36         employer, or the person who is the subject of the
   37         background check; providing an effective date.