Florida Senate - 2020                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 538
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  01/22/2020           .                                
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       The Committee on Infrastructure and Security (Diaz) recommended
       the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    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  counties and municipalities.—
    9         (1) As soon as practicable following its initial response
   10  to an incident, a county or a municipality shall provide
   11  notification to the State Watch Office within the division of
   12  any incidents listed in the State Watch Office Reportable
   13  Incidents List which occur within the geographic boundaries of
   14  the county or municipality.
   15         (2) The division shall annually provide the State Watch
   16  Office Reportable Incidents List to county and municipal
   17  emergency managers, the Speaker of the House of Representatives,
   18  and the President of the Senate.
   19         (3) The division shall maintain the State Watch Office
   20  Reportable Incidents List, and shall annually notify county and
   21  municipal emergency managers, the Speaker of the House of
   22  Representatives, and the President of the Senate when the list
   23  is amended by the division director.
   24         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2020.
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   26  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   27  And the title is amended as follows:
   28         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   29  and insert:
   30                        A bill to be entitled                      
   31         An act relating to emergency reporting; creating s.
   32         252.351, F.S.; requiring a county or municipality to
   33         report certain incidents to the State Watch Office
   34         within the Division of Emergency Management; requiring
   35         the division to annually provide the State Watch
   36         Office Reportable Incidents List to local emergency
   37         managers and the Legislature; requiring the division
   38         to maintain the reportable incidents list; requiring
   39         the division to notify local emergency managers and
   40         the Legislature of any amendments to the reportable
   41         incidents list; providing an effective date.