Bill Text: FL S1084 | 2017 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Firefighters

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-04-28 - Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 465 (Ch. 2017-106) [S1084 Detail]

Download: Florida-2017-S1084-Comm_Sub.html

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       Florida Senate - 2017                             CS for SB 1084
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Banking and Insurance; and Senator Stargel
       
       
       
       
       
       597-03365-17                                          20171084c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to firefighters; creating s. 633.415,
    3         F.S.; providing for the designation as a Lifetime
    4         Firefighter; providing requirements for such
    5         designation; providing responsibilities of the
    6         Division of State Fire Marshal within the Department
    7         of Financial Services; authorizing the division to
    8         investigate reports, complaints, or felony convictions
    9         concerning Lifetime Firefighters; authorizing the
   10         division to adopt rules; providing an effective date.
   11          
   12  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   14         Section 1. Section 633.415, Florida Statutes, is created to
   15  read:
   16         633.415 Lifetime Firefighter designation.—
   17         (1) A firefighter or volunteer firefighter may apply for a
   18  Lifetime Firefighter designation if he or she:
   19         (a) Has at least 20 years of service;
   20         (b) Has been employed by a fire service provider, as
   21  defined in s. 633.102(13), and is in good standing with his or
   22  her most recent fire service provider;
   23         (c) Has not been convicted of a felony under s. 633.412(2),
   24  and so attests; and
   25         (d)1. Is recorded on a fire service provider roster in the
   26  division’s online electronic database; or
   27         2. Was previously certified as a firefighter or volunteer
   28  firefighter in this state.
   29         (2) A firefighter may have his or her Firefighter
   30  Certificate of Compliance or a Volunteer Firefighter Certificate
   31  of Completion placed into a Lifetime Firefighter designation by
   32  applying to the division at the time required to renew the
   33  certificate. The application shall be made on a form prescribed
   34  by the division.
   35         (3) A Lifetime Firefighter may not engage in firefighting
   36  activities with a fire department unless he or she holds a
   37  current and valid Firefighter Certificate of Compliance or
   38  Special Certificate of Compliance issued by the division under
   39  s. 633.408.
   40         (4) After the division approves a currently employed
   41  firefighter’s Lifetime Firefighter designation, the division
   42  shall, after the firefighter’s 4-year period pursuant to s.
   43  633.414, issue in its online electronic database the Lifetime
   44  Firefighter designation upon the end of such period.
   45         (5) If a firefighter’s Firefighter Certificate of
   46  Compliance or Volunteer Firefighter Certificate of Completion is
   47  current upon the approval of a Lifetime Firefighter designation
   48  and he or she applies to renew such certification within the
   49  first 4 years after the date of such approval, he or she must
   50  successfully complete the Minimum Standards Course Examination
   51  for a firefighter or a volunteer firefighter task book for a
   52  volunteer firefighter, and meet all requirements in s. 633.412.
   53         (6) If a firefighter’s Firefighter Certificate of
   54  Compliance or Volunteer Firefighter Certificate of Completion
   55  has expired upon receiving the Lifetime Firefighter designation
   56  and he or she desires to perform firefighting services within
   57  the first 4 years after the date of approval of the Lifetime
   58  Firefighter designation, the firefighter must successfully
   59  complete the Minimum Standards Course Examination for a
   60  firefighter or a volunteer firefighter task book for a volunteer
   61  firefighter, and meet all requirements in s. 633.412.
   62         (7) The division may investigate any report, complaint, or
   63  felony conviction concerning a Lifetime Firefighter pursuant to
   64  s. 633.412 or s. 633.426.
   65         (8) The division may adopt rules pursuant to its authority
   66  under s. 633.104(1) to implement this section.
   67         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2017.