Florida Senate - 2019                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 824
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       The Committee on Innovation, Industry, and Technology (Gibson)
       recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment to Amendment (672276) (with title
    2  amendment)
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    4         Between lines 327 and 328
    5  insert:
    6         Section 6. Section 760.08, Florida Statutes, is amended to
    7  read:
    8         760.08 Discrimination in places of public accommodation.—
    9         (1) All persons are entitled to the full and equal
   10  enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges,
   11  advantages, and accommodations of any place of public
   12  accommodation without discrimination or segregation on the
   13  ground of race, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy,
   14  handicap, familial status, or religion.
   15         (2) In order to assist with the enforcement of subsection
   16  (1), as it applies to vacation rentals as defined in s.
   17  509.242(1)(c), operators of vacation rentals shall maintain a
   18  register of instances in which guests were denied
   19  accommodations. The register must include the name of the guest
   20  denied accommodations and the basis for the denial. The register
   21  must be maintained in chronological order and be available for
   22  inspection at any time by the Division of Hotels and Restaurants
   23  of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation.
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   26  And the title is amended as follows:
   27         Delete line 764
   28  and insert:
   29         certain circumstances; providing penalties; amending
   30         s. 760.08, F.S.; requiring operators of vacation
   31         rentals to maintain, for inspection by the division at
   32         any time, a register of guests denied accommodations
   33         and the basis for such denials; amending