Florida Senate - 2020                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1404
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  02/19/2020           .                                
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       Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment, and
       General Government (Bean) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment to Amendment (178232) (with title
    2  amendment)
    3  
    4         Between lines 517 and 518
    5  insert:
    6         Section 12. Subsection (20) of section 633.202, Florida
    7  Statutes, is amended to read:
    8         633.202 Florida Fire Prevention Code.—
    9         (20)(a) In apartment occupancies with enclosed corridors
   10  served by interior or exterior exit stairs, doorstep refuse and
   11  recycling collection containers, which stand upright on their
   12  own and do not leak liquids when standing upright, must be
   13  allowed in exit access corridors when all of the following
   14  conditions exist:
   15         1. The maximum doorstep refuse and recycling collection
   16  container size does not exceed 13 gallons.
   17         2. Waste, which is in a doorstep refuse and recycling
   18  collection container, is not placed in the exit access corridors
   19  for single periods exceeding 5 hours.
   20         3. Doorstep refuse and recycling collection containers do
   21  not occupy the exit access corridors for single periods
   22  exceeding 12 hours.
   23         4. Doorstep refuse and recycling collection containers do
   24  not reduce the means of egress width below that required under
   25  NFPA Life Safety Code 101:31, as adopted under the Florida Fire
   26  Prevention Code.
   27         5. Management staff have written policies and procedures in
   28  place and enforce them to ensure compliance with this paragraph,
   29  and, upon request, provide a copy of such policies and
   30  procedures to the authority having jurisdiction.
   31         (b) In apartment occupancies with open-air corridors or
   32  balconies served by exterior exit stairs, doorstep refuse and
   33  recycling collection containers, which stand upright on their
   34  own and do not leak liquids when standing upright, must be
   35  allowed in exit access corridors when all of the following
   36  conditions exist:
   37         1. The maximum doorstep refuse and recycling collection
   38  container size does not exceed 27 gallons.
   39         2. Waste, which is in a doorstep refuse and recycling
   40  collection container, is not placed in the exit access corridors
   41  for single periods exceeding 5 hours.
   42         3. Doorstep refuse and recycling collection containers do
   43  not reduce the means of egress width below that required under
   44  NFPA Life Safety Code 101:31, as adopted under the Florida Fire
   45  Prevention Code.
   46         4. Management staff have written policies and procedures in
   47  place and enforce them to ensure compliance with this paragraph,
   48  and, upon request, provide a copy of such policies and
   49  procedures to the authority having jurisdiction.
   50         (c) The authority having jurisdiction may approve
   51  alternative containers and storage arrangements that are
   52  demonstrated to provide an equivalent level of safety to that
   53  provided under paragraphs (a) and (b).
   54         (d) The authority having jurisdiction shall allow apartment
   55  occupancies a phase-in period until December 31, 2020, to comply
   56  with this subsection.
   57         (e) This subsection is repealed on January 1, 2024 July 1,
   58  2021.
   59  
   60  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   61  And the title is amended as follows:
   62         Delete line 964
   63  and insert:
   64         insurance; amending s. 633.202, F.S.; extending the
   65         repeal date of exemptions to the Florida Fire
   66         Prevention Code which authorize doorstep refuse and
   67         recycling collection containers to be in exit access
   68         corridors in certain apartment occupancies under
   69         certain circumstances; creating s. 633.217, F.S.;
   70         prohibiting