Florida Senate - 2025                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1078
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  03/27/2025           .                                
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       The Committee on Community Affairs (McClain) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete lines 116 - 137
    4  and insert:
    5         (b) If a local government fails to adhere to the
    6  requirements of this section when adopting an ordinance for a
    7  local amendment to the Florida Fire Prevention Code, the local
    8  amendment is unenforceable. A local government may only enforce
    9  an ordinance that has been sent to the Florida Building
   10  Commission and the State Fire Marshal pursuant to subsection (8)
   11  as of the date that the bid for a permit was submitted. A local
   12  government shall submit an adopted local amendment to the
   13  Florida Fire Prevention Code to all of the local government’s
   14  registered fire protection contractors within 7 business days
   15  after the local government adopts the local amendment.
   16         Section 3. Paragraph (b) of subsection (3) of section
   17  633.312, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   18         633.312 Inspection of fire control systems, fire hydrants,
   19  and fire protection systems.—
   20         (3)
   21         (b) The State Fire Marshal shall adopt rules to implement a
   22  uniform summary inspection report and submission procedures to
   23  be used by all third-party vendors and local authorities having
   24  jurisdiction. For purposes of this section, a uniform summary
   25  inspection report must record the address at which where the
   26  fire protection system or hydrant is located, the company and
   27  person conducting the inspection and their license number, the
   28  date of the inspection, and the fire protection system or
   29  hydrant inspection status, including the total number of
   30  deficiencies found, separated into critical and noncritical
   31  categories, and the total number of impairment deficiencies,
   32  with a brief summary of each impairment deficiency a brief
   33  summary of each deficiency, critical
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   35  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   36  And the title is amended as follows:
   37         Delete lines 24 - 32
   38  and insert:
   39         Prevention Code is unenforceable; providing that a
   40         municipality may enforce only an ordinance that has
   41         been sent to the Florida Building Commission and the
   42         State Fire Marshal as of the date that the bid for a
   43         permit was submitted; requiring a local government to
   44         submit adopted local amendments to the Florida Fire
   45         Prevention Code to specified entities within a
   46         specified timeframe; amending s. 633.312, F.S.;
   47         revising what must be included in a uniform inspection
   48         report; deleting the requirement for a brief summary
   49         of such