Bill Text: FL H0103 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: State Lotteries

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-07 - Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration [H0103 Detail]

Download: Florida-2011-H0103-Introduced.html

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HB 103

1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to state lotteries; amending s. 24.112,
3	F.S.; requiring each retailer of lottery tickets to
4	provide assistance to any individual who is blind or
5	visually impaired and has requested assistance in filling
6	out his or her lottery ticket; providing a definition;
7	providing that a retailer or an employee of the retailer
8	is not liable under certain circumstances; providing an
9	effective date.
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11	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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13	Section 1.  Subsection (13) of section 24.112, Florida
14	Statutes, is amended to read:
15	24.112  Retailers of lottery tickets.-
16	(13)(a)  Each retailer shall provide accessibility for
17	disabled persons on habitable grade levels. This paragraph
18	subsection does not apply to a retail location which has an
19	entrance door threshold more than 12 inches above ground level.
20	As used in this paragraph herein and for purposes of this
21	subsection only, the term "accessibility for disabled persons on
22	habitable grade levels" means that retailers shall provide
23	ramps, platforms, aisles and pathway widths, turnaround areas,
24	and parking spaces to the extent these are required for the
25	retailer's premises by the particular jurisdiction where the
26	retailer is located. Accessibility shall be required to only one
27	point of sale of lottery tickets for each lottery retailer
28	location. The requirements of this paragraph subsection shall be
29	deemed to have been met if, in lieu of the foregoing, disabled
30	persons can purchase tickets from the retail location by means
31	of a drive-up window, provided the hours of access at the drive-
32	up window are not less than those provided at any other entrance
33	at that lottery retailer location. Inspections for compliance
34	with this paragraph subsection shall be performed by those
35	enforcement authorities responsible for enforcement pursuant to
36	s. 553.80 in accordance with procedures established by those
37	authorities. Those enforcement authorities shall provide to the
38	Department of the Lottery a certification of noncompliance for
39	any lottery retailer not meeting such requirements.
40	(b)  Each retailer shall provide assistance to any
41	individual who is blind or visually impaired and has requested
42	assistance in filling out his or her lottery ticket. As used in
43	this paragraph, the term "assistance" means the inputting and
44	printing of the requested lottery ticket as communicated
45	verbally or in writing by the blind or visually impaired
46	individual. A retailer or an employee of the retailer is not
47	liable for any alleged or actual scrivener's error absent a
48	finding of intentional fraud or malice by a court of competent
49	jurisdiction.
50	Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2011.

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