Florida Senate - 2011 SB 2092
By the Committee on Military Affairs, Space, and Domestic
Security
583-03458-11 20112092__
1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to emergency public shelters; creating
3 s. 252.353, F.S.; requiring the Division of Emergency
4 Management to submit a report to the Governor,
5 Legislature, and Cabinet on compliance by school
6 districts with public shelter requirements for
7 educational facilities; requiring that the division
8 create and administer a registry of newly constructed
9 public shelters; requiring each county emergency
10 management office to submit an annual report to the
11 division on newly constructed educational facilities;
12 requiring the school boards and the Department of
13 Education to coordinate and implement the provisions
14 of the act with the division and county emergency
15 management offices; providing an effective date.
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17 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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19 Section 1. Section 252.353, Florida Statutes, is created to
20 read:
21 252.353 Emergency management; public shelters.—
22 (1) Beginning January 31, 2012, the division shall create a
23 report on the compliance by school districts with the public
24 shelter design criteria developed pursuant to s. 1013.372(1).
25 The report shall be incorporated into the statewide emergency
26 shelter plan required by s. 252.385(2)(b). The reporting period
27 shall be 2 years as required for the statewide emergency shelter
28 plan. The statewide emergency shelter plan shall be submitted to
29 the Governor, the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the
30 House of Representatives, and the Cabinet. The report must
31 provide, at a minimum:
32 (a) A listing by county of the number of educational
33 facilities that were permitted for new construction by each
34 school district during the reporting period and that met or
35 failed to meet the public shelter design criteria developed
36 pursuant to s. 1013.372(1).
37 (b) The composition of general population shelters and
38 special needs shelters that were permitted for those educational
39 facilities and that met the infrastructure standards for public
40 shelters during the reporting year.
41 (c) An explanation of the exemption process for each newly
42 permitted educational facility that was granted an exemption
43 from the public shelter design criteria during the reporting
44 period, including an explanation of the circumstances that
45 warranted the exemption.
46 (d) Information on school district facilities that were
47 retrofitted during the reporting year.
48 (2) The division shall create and administer a registry
49 that is accessible from the division’s website and that contains
50 information on school district compliance with the public
51 shelter design criteria developed pursuant to s. 1013.372(1).
52 The registry shall be available on the website by January 31,
53 2012, and must include data beginning with January 1, 2011.
54 (3) By November 30, 2011, and each odd-numbered year
55 thereafter, each county emergency management office shall
56 prepare and submit a report to the division on school district
57 facilities within the county which addresses the reporting
58 requirements in subsection (1).
59 (4) The district school boards and the Department of
60 Education are responsible for coordinating and implementing the
61 provisions of this section with the division and county
62 emergency management offices.
63 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2011.