Florida Senate - 2020                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 538
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  02/11/2020           .                                
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       The Committee on Community Affairs (Diaz) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Section 252.351, Florida Statutes, is created to
    6  read:
    7         252.351 Mandatory reporting of certain incidents by
    8  political subdivisions.—
    9         (1) For purposes of this section, the term “office” means
   10  the State Watch Office established within the division pursuant
   11  to s. 14.2016.
   12         (2) The office, to aid in its mission of serving as a
   13  clearinghouse for emergency-related information across all
   14  levels of government, shall create and maintain a list of
   15  reportable incidents. The list must include, but is not limited
   16  to, the following events:
   17         (a) Major fires, including wildfires, commercial or
   18  multiunit residential fires, and industrial fires.
   19         (b) Search and rescue operations, including structure
   20  collapse or urban search and rescue response.
   21         (c) Bomb threats or threats to inflict harm on a large
   22  number of people or significant infrastructure, a suspicious
   23  device, or device detonation.
   24         (d) Natural hazards and severe weather, including
   25  earthquakes, landslides, or ground subsidence or sinkholes.
   26         (e) Public health and population protective actions,
   27  including public health hazards, evacuation orders, or emergency
   28  shelter openings.
   29         (f) Animal or agricultural events, including suspected or
   30  confirmed animal disease, suspected or confirmed agricultural
   31  disease, crop failure, or food supply contamination.
   32         (g) Environmental concerns, including an incident of
   33  reportable pollution release as required in s. 403.077(2).
   34         (h) Nuclear power plant events, including events in process
   35  or that have occurred that indicate a potential degradation of
   36  the level of safety of the plant or that indicate a security
   37  threat to facility protection.
   38         (i) Major transportation events, including aircraft or
   39  airport incidents, passenger or commercial railroad incidents,
   40  major road or bridge closures, or marine incidents involving a
   41  blocked navigable channel of a major waterway.
   42         (j) Major utility or infrastructure events, including dam
   43  failure or overtopping, drinking water facility breach, or major
   44  utility outages or disruptions involving transmission lines or
   45  substations.
   46         (k) Military events, when information regarding such
   47  activity is provided to a political subdivision.
   48         (3) As soon as practicable following its initial response
   49  to an incident, a political subdivision shall provide
   50  notification to the office that an incident specified on the
   51  list of reportable incidents has occurred within its
   52  geographical boundaries. The office may establish guidelines
   53  specifying the method and format a political subdivision must
   54  use when reporting an incident.
   55         (4) Beginning December 1, 2020, and by December 1 every
   56  year thereafter, the office must provide the list of reportable
   57  incidents to each political subdivision.
   58         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2020.
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   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 everything before the enacting clause
   63  and insert:
   64                        A bill to be entitled                      
   65         An act relating to emergency reporting; creating s.
   66         252.351, F.S.; defining the term “office”; requiring
   67         the State Watch Office within the Division of
   68         Emergency Management to create a list of reportable
   69         incidents; requiring a political subdivision to report
   70         incidents contained on the list to the office;
   71         authorizing the office to establish guidelines a
   72         political subdivision must follow to report an
   73         incident; requiring the office to annually provide the
   74         list of reportable incidents to each political
   75         subdivision; providing an effective date.