Florida Senate - 2016                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 894
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  01/20/2016           .                                
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       The Committee on Education Pre-K - 12 (Detert) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Before line 34
    4  insert:
    5         Section 1. Subsection (6) of section 39.201, Florida
    6  Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         39.201 Mandatory reports of child abuse, abandonment, or
    8  neglect; mandatory reports of death; central abuse hotline.—
    9         (6) Information in the central abuse hotline may not be
   10  used for employment screening, except as provided in s.
   11  39.202(2)(a) and (h). Information in the central abuse hotline
   12  and the department’s automated abuse information system may be
   13  used by the department, its authorized agents or contract
   14  providers, the Department of Health, or county agencies as part
   15  of the licensure or registration process pursuant to ss.
   16  402.301-402.319 and ss. 409.175-409.176. Pursuant to s.
   17  39.202(2)(q), the information in the central abuse hotline may
   18  also be used by the Department of Education for purposes of
   19  educator certification discipline and review.
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   22  And the title is amended as follows:
   23         Between lines 2 and 3
   24  insert:
   25         39.201, F.S.; authorizing certain information to be
   26         used for educator certification discipline and review;
   27         amending s.