Florida Senate - 2018                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB's 1400 & 1640
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  02/09/2018           .                                
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       The Committee on Regulated Industries (Gibson) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Between lines 1497 and 1498
    4  insert:
    5         Section 48. Paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of section
    6  413.08, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         413.08 Rights and responsibilities of an individual with a
    8  disability; use of a service animal; prohibited discrimination
    9  in public employment, public accommodations, and housing
   10  accommodations; penalties.—
   11         (1) As used in this section and s. 413.081, the term:
   12         (c) “Public accommodation” means a common carrier,
   13  airplane, motor vehicle, railroad train, motor bus, streetcar,
   14  boat, or other public conveyance or mode of transportation;
   15  hotel; vacation rental as defined in s. 509.013; a timeshare
   16  that is a transient public lodging establishment as defined in
   17  s. 509.013; lodging place; place of public accommodation,
   18  amusement, or resort; and other places to which the general
   19  public is invited, subject only to the conditions and
   20  limitations established by law and applicable alike to all
   21  persons. The term does not include air carriers covered by the
   22  Air Carrier Access Act of 1986, 49 U.S.C. s. 41705, and by
   23  regulations adopted by the United States Department of
   24  Transportation to implement such act.
   25         Section 49. Subsections (1) and (4) of section 553.504,
   26  Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
   27         553.504 Exceptions to applicability of the federal
   28  standards.—Notwithstanding the adoption of the Americans with
   29  Disabilities Act Standards for Accessible Design pursuant to s.
   30  553.503, all buildings, structures, and facilities in this state
   31  must meet the following additional requirements if such
   32  requirements provide increased accessibility:
   33         (1) All new or altered public buildings and facilities,
   34  private buildings and facilities, places of public
   35  accommodation, vacation rentals as defined in s. 509.013
   36  licensed after July 1, 2018, and commercial facilities, as those
   37  terms are defined by the standards, subject to this part, must
   38  comply with this part.
   39         (4) In motels and hotels a number of rooms equaling at
   40  least 5 percent of the guest rooms minus the number of
   41  accessible rooms required by the standards, and in the case of a
   42  vacation rental as defined in s. 509.013 licensed after July 1,
   43  2018, at least one bedroom and one bathroom, must provide the
   44  following special accessibility features:
   45         (a) Grab rails in bathrooms and toilet rooms that comply
   46  with s. 604.5 of the standards.
   47         (b) All beds in designed accessible guest rooms must be an
   48  open-frame type that allows the passage of lift devices.
   49         (c) Water closets that comply with section 604.4 of the
   50  standards.
   51  
   52  All buildings, structures, or facilities licensed as a hotel,
   53  motel, vacations rental as defined in s. 509.013 licensed after
   54  July 1, 2018, or condominium pursuant to chapter 509 are subject
   55  to this subsection. This subsection does not relieve the owner
   56  of the responsibility of providing accessible rooms in
   57  conformance with ss. 224 and 806 of the standards.
   58  
   59  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   60  And the title is amended as follows:
   61         Delete line 105
   62  and insert:
   63         717.1355, and 877.24, F.S.; amending s. 413.08, F.S.;
   64         revising the definition of the term “public
   65         accommodation” to include vacation rentals; amending
   66         s. 553.504, F.S.; requiring vacation rentals to meet
   67         certain additional requirements for increased
   68         accessibility for persons with disabilities;
   69         conforming cross-