Florida Senate - 2019                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1252
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  04/01/2019           .                                
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       The Committee on Banking and Insurance (Gruters) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment 
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    3         Delete lines 59 - 85
    4  and insert:
    5  Engagements promulgated by the American Institute of Certified
    6  Public Accountants.
    7  
    8  However, these terms shall not include services provided by the
    9  American Institute of Certified Public Accountants or the
   10  Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants, or any full
   11  service association of certified public accounting firms whose
   12  plans of administration have been approved by the board, to
   13  their members or services performed by these entities in
   14  reviewing the services provided to the public by members of
   15  these entities.
   16         Section 2. Paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section
   17  473.312, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   18         473.312 Continuing education.—
   19         (1)
   20         (b) Not less than 10 25 percent of the total hours required
   21  by the board shall be in accounting-related and auditing-related
   22  subjects, as distinguished from federal and local taxation
   23  matters and management services.
   24         Section 3. Subsection (2) of section 473.313, Florida
   25  Statutes, is amended to read:
   26         473.313 Inactive status.—
   27         (2) A license that has become inactive under subsection (1)
   28  or for failure to complete the requirements in s. 473.312 may be
   29  reactivated under s. 473.311 upon application to the department.
   30  The board may prescribe by rule continuing education
   31  requirements as a condition of reactivating a license. The
   32  maximum minimum continuing education requirements for
   33  reactivating a