The Florida Senate

SB 740: Persons Who are Deaf

GENERAL BILL by Soto

Persons Who are Deaf; Requiring the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to create a form that an individual must complete for an identification card and a placard that indicate the individual is deaf; establishing a database of individuals who are deaf; requiring the Department of Law Enforcement to include information from the forms in the database; requiring a law enforcement agency to have at least one on-call officer who is trained in or knows American Sign Language or to contract with qualified interpreters, etc.

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• Bill History

  Date	Chamber	Action
  11/4/2015	Senate	• Filed
  11/18/2015	Senate	• Referred to Transportation; Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Appropriations -SJ 55
  1/12/2016	Senate	• Introduced -SJ 55
  3/11/2016	Senate	• Died in Transportation

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• SB 740, Original Filed Version (Current Bill Version) Posted 11/4/2015 at 8:13 AM

  Bill Text:	Web Page | PDF

  Analyses:	None

  Related Bills (2)

  Bill Number	Subject	Filed By	Relationship	Last Action and Location	Track Bills
  H 487 (c1)	Persons Who Are Deaf	Torres	Compare	Last Action: 3/11/2016 H Died on Calendar, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 7061 (Ch. 2016-239) Location: On 2nd Reading Calendar
  S 1394 (e1)	Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles	Brandes	Compare	Last Action: 3/11/2016 S Died on Calendar, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 231 (Ch. 2016-77), HB 7027 (Ch. 2016-181), CS/CS/HB 7061 (Ch. 2016-239) Location: On 3rd Reading Calendar

  Citations - Statutes (4)

  Citation	Catchline	Location in Bill Location In Bill Help
  320.0849		Page 2 (pdf)
  901.245	Interpreter services for deaf persons.	Page 2 (pdf)
  943.0322		Page 3 (pdf)
  943.1723		Page 4 (pdf)

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