The Florida Senate

CS/SB 620: Firefighters’ Bill of Rights

GENERAL BILL by Governmental Oversight and Accountability ; Hooper

Firefighters’ Bill of Rights; Specifying application of certain rights of firefighters to informal inquiries; requiring that witnesses be interviewed and certain information be provided to a firefighter subjected to interrogation before an interrogation is conducted; prohibiting a firefighter from being threatened with certain disciplinary action; requiring that a firefighter be notified and provided certain information before certain disciplinary actions are taken; requiring that a firefighter be given the opportunity to address certain findings; requiring that certain information be kept confidential and exempt in accordance with existing law, etc.

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• Bill History

  Date	Chamber	Action
  10/22/2019	Senate	• Filed
  11/6/2019	Senate	• Referred to Community Affairs; Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Rules -SJ 47
  12/2/2019	Senate	• On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 12/09/19, 4:00 pm, 301 Senate Building
  12/9/2019	Senate	• Favorable by Community Affairs; YEAS 5 NAYS 0 -SJ 132
  12/10/2019	Senate	• Now in Governmental Oversight and Accountability
  1/6/2020	Senate	• On Committee agenda-- Governmental Oversight and Accountability, 01/13/20, 1:00 pm, 301 Senate Building
  1/13/2020	Senate	• CS by Governmental Oversight and Accountability; YEAS 5 NAYS 0 -SJ 156
  1/14/2020	Senate	• Introduced -SJ 47 • Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
  1/16/2020	Senate	• Now in Rules
  1/22/2020	Senate	• CS by Governmental Oversight and Accountability read 1st time -SJ 186
  3/14/2020	Senate	• Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration • Died in Rules

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• CS/SB 620, Committee Substitute 1 (Current Bill Version) Posted 1/14/2020 at 1:10 PM

  Bill Text:	Web Page | PDF

  Analyses:	None

  Related Bills (1)

  Bill Number	Subject	Filed By	Relationship	Last Action and Location	Track Bills
  H 215	Firefighters' Bill of Rights	Casello, Caruso	Similar	Last Action: 3/14/2020 H Died in Oversight, Transparency and Public Management Subcommittee

  Citations - Statutes (3)

  Citation	Catchline	Location in Bill Location In Bill Help
  112.81	Definitions.	Page 2 (pdf)
  112.82	Rights of firefighters.	Page 2 (pdf)
  112.825		Page 5 (pdf)

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• SB 620, Original Filed Version Posted 10/22/2019 at 1:22 PM

  Bill Text:	Web Page | PDF

  Analyses:	Community Affairs (Pre-Meeting) 12/6/2019 (pdf) Community Affairs (Post-Meeting) 12/9/2019 (pdf) Governmental Oversight and Accountability (Pre-Meeting) 1/14/2020 (pdf) Governmental Oversight and Accountability (Post-Meeting) 1/14/2020 (pdf)

  Related Bills (1)

  Bill Number	Subject	Filed By	Relationship	Last Action and Location	Track Bills
  H 215	Firefighters' Bill of Rights	Casello, Caruso	Identical	Last Action: 3/14/2020 H Died in Oversight, Transparency and Public Management Subcommittee

  Committee Amendments (1)

  Amendment	Sponsor	Filed	Last Committee Action	Format
  882796 - Amendment (Delete All) Delete everything after the enacting clause and insert:	Governmental Oversight and Accountability (Hooper)	1/10/2020 11:57 AM	Replaced by Committee Substitute 1/13/2020	Web Page PDF

  Committee Votes (2)

  Date	Committee	Result
  12/9/2019 4:00 PM	Community Affairs	5 Yeas - 0 Nays
  1/13/2020 1:00 PM	Governmental Oversight and Accountability	5 Yeas - 0 Nays

  Citations - Statutes (3)

  Citation	Catchline	Location in Bill Location In Bill Help
  112.81	Definitions.	Page 1 (pdf)
  112.82	Rights of firefighters.	Page 2 (pdf)
  112.825		Page 3 (pdf)

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