Florida Senate - 2025                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1076
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  04/16/2025           .                                
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       The Committee on Rules (McClain) recommended the following:
    1  
    2         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    3  
    4         Between lines 69 and 70
    5  insert:
    6         Section 2. Paragraph (b) of subsection (4) of section
    7  489.115, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
    8         489.115 Certification and registration; endorsement;
    9  reciprocity; renewals; continuing education.—
   10         (4)
   11         (b)1. Each certificateholder or registrant must shall
   12  provide proof, in a form established by rule of the board, that
   13  the certificateholder or registrant has completed at least 14
   14  classroom hours of at least 50 minutes each of continuing
   15  education courses during each biennium since the issuance or
   16  renewal of the certificate or registration. The board shall
   17  establish by rule that a portion of the required 14 hours must
   18  deal with the subject of workers’ compensation, business
   19  practices, workplace safety, and, for applicable licensure
   20  categories, wind mitigation methodologies, and 1 hour of which
   21  must deal with laws and rules. The board shall by rule establish
   22  criteria for the approval of continuing education courses and
   23  providers, including requirements relating to the content of
   24  courses and standards for approval of providers, and may by rule
   25  establish criteria for accepting alternative nonclassroom
   26  continuing education on an hour-for-hour basis. The board shall
   27  prescribe by rule the continuing education, if any, which is
   28  required during the first biennium of initial licensure. A
   29  person who has been licensed for less than an entire biennium
   30  must not be required to complete the full 14 hours of continuing
   31  education.
   32         2. In addition, the board may approve specialized
   33  continuing education courses on compliance with the wind
   34  resistance provisions for one and two family dwellings contained
   35  in the Florida Building Code and any alternate methodologies for
   36  providing such wind resistance which have been approved for use
   37  by the Florida Building Commission. Division I
   38  certificateholders or registrants who demonstrate proficiency
   39  upon completion of such specialized courses may certify plans
   40  and specifications for one and two family dwellings to be in
   41  compliance with the code or alternate methodologies, as
   42  appropriate, except for dwellings located in floodways or
   43  coastal hazard areas as defined in ss. 60.3D and E of the
   44  National Flood Insurance Program.
   45         3. The board shall require, by rule adopted pursuant to ss.
   46  120.536(1) and 120.54, a specified number of hours in
   47  specialized or advanced module courses, approved by the Florida
   48  Building Commission, on any portion of the Florida Building
   49  Code, adopted pursuant to part IV of chapter 553, relating to
   50  the contractor’s respective discipline.
   51         4. A roofing contractor who intends to retrofit the roof
   52  to-wall connections on structures with wood roof decks must
   53  complete at least 2 hours of general continuing education
   54  specific to retrofitting roof-to-wall connections, including the
   55  relation of such discipline to property insurance wind
   56  mitigation credits and required documentation. Such roofing
   57  contractor must present the certificate of completion of the
   58  continuing education course to the appropriate local government
   59  official at the time a building permit application is submitted
   60  in order to demonstrate that such roofing contractor completed
   61  the training on retrofit methodology and proper installation or
   62  enhancement of the connections.
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   64  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   65  And the title is amended as follows:
   66         Delete line 4
   67  and insert:
   68         “roofing contractor”; amending s. 489.115, F.S.;
   69         requiring certain roofing contractors to complete
   70         certain continuing education courses; requiring such
   71         roofing contractor to present the certificate of
   72         completion of such continuing education courses to
   73         certain local government officials at the time the
   74         building application is submitted; amending s.
   75         489.147, F.S.;