Florida Senate - 2017                                     SB 404
       
       
        
       By Senator Simmons
       
       9-00490-17                                             2017404__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to legislative ratification; amending
    3         s. 120.80, F.S.; providing that the maximum
    4         reimbursement allowances and manuals approved by a
    5         three-member panel for purposes of the Workers’
    6         Compensation Law are exempt from legislative
    7         ratification under the Administrative Procedure Act
    8         when the adverse impact or regulatory costs of such
    9         allowances or manuals exceed any criteria specified in
   10         s. 120.541(2)(a), F.S.; providing an effective date.
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   12  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   14         Section 1. Subsection (19) is added to section 120.80,
   15  Florida Statutes, to read:
   16         120.80 Exceptions and special requirements; agencies.—
   17         (19) DEPARTMENT OF FINANCIAL SERVICES.—Section 120.541(3)
   18  does not apply to the adoption of maximum reimbursement
   19  allowances and manuals approved by a three-member panel pursuant
   20  to s. 440.13(12).
   21         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2017.