Florida Senate - 2020 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. SB 566
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LEGISLATIVE ACTION
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The Committee on Community Affairs (Bracy) recommended the
following:
1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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3 Delete lines 72 - 419
4 and insert:
5 discriminate against any person or family because of race as
6 defined in s. 760.02, color, religion, sex, national origin, or
7 marital status.
8 Section 3. Section 760.02, Florida Statutes, is reordered
9 and amended to read:
10 760.02 Definitions.—For the purposes of ss. 760.01-760.11,
11 760.23, 760.25, and 509.092, the term:
12 (7)(1) “Florida Civil Rights Act of 1992” means ss. 760.01
13 760.11 and 509.092.
14 (2) “Commission” means the Florida Commission on Human
15 Relations created by s. 760.03.
16 (3) “Commissioner” or “member” means a member of the
17 commission.
18 (4) “Discriminatory practice” means any practice made
19 unlawful by the Florida Civil Rights Act of 1992.
20 (9)(5) “National origin” includes ancestry.
21 (10)(6) “Person” includes an individual, association,
22 corporation, joint apprenticeship committee, joint-stock
23 company, labor union, legal representative, mutual company,
24 partnership, receiver, trust, trustee in bankruptcy, or
25 unincorporated organization; any other legal or commercial
26 entity; the state; or any governmental entity or agency.
27 (5)(7) “Employer” means any person employing 15 or more
28 employees for each working day in each of 20 or more calendar
29 weeks in the current or preceding calendar year, and any agent
30 of such a person.
31 (6)(8) “Employment agency” means any person regularly
32 undertaking, with or without compensation, to procure employees
33 for an employer or to procure for employees opportunities to
34 work for an employer, and includes an agent of such a person.
35 (11) “Protective hairstyle” includes, but is not limited
36 to, hairstyles such as braids, locks, or twists.
37 (8)(9) “Labor organization” means any organization that
38 which exists for the purpose, in whole or in part, of collective
39 bargaining or of dealing with employers concerning grievances,
40 terms or conditions of employment, or other mutual aid or
41 protection in connection with employment.
42 (1)(10) “Aggrieved person” means any person who files a
43 complaint with the Florida Commission on Human Relations
44 Commission.
45 (13) “Race” is inclusive of traits historically associated
46 with race, including, but not limited to, hair texture, hair
47 type, and protective hairstyles.
48 (12)(11) “Public accommodations” means places of public
49 accommodation, lodgings, facilities principally engaged in
50 selling food for consumption on the premises, gasoline stations,
51 places of exhibition or entertainment, and other covered
52 establishments. Each of the following establishments which
53 serves the public is a place of public accommodation within the
54 meaning of this section:
55 (a) Any inn, hotel, motel, or other establishment that
56 which provides lodging to transient guests, other than an
57 establishment located within a building that which contains not
58 more than four rooms for rent or hire and that which is actually
59 occupied by the proprietor of such establishment as his or her
60 residence.
61 (b) Any restaurant, cafeteria, lunchroom, lunch counter,
62 soda fountain, or other facility principally engaged in selling
63 food for consumption on the premises, including, but not limited
64 to, any such facility located on the premises of any retail
65 establishment, or any gasoline station.
66 (c) Any motion picture theater, theater, concert hall,
67 sports arena, stadium, or other place of exhibition or
68 entertainment.
69 (d) Any establishment that which is physically located
70 within the premises of any establishment otherwise covered by
71 this subsection, or within the premises of which is physically
72 located any such covered establishment, and that which holds
73 itself out as serving patrons of such covered establishment.
74 Section 4. Subsections (9) and (10) are added to section
75 1000.21, Florida Statutes, to read:
76 1000.21 Systemwide definitions.—As used in the Florida K-20
77 Education Code:
78 (9) “Protective hairstyle” includes, but is not limited to,
79 hairstyles such as braids, locks, or twists.
80 (10) “Race” is inclusive of traits historically associated
81 with race, including, but not limited to, hair texture, hair
82 type, and protective hairstyles.
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85 And the title is amended as follows:
86 Delete lines 6 - 31
87 and insert:
88 discriminate against any person or family because of
89 traits historically associated with race; reordering
90 and amending s. 760.02, F.S.; defining the terms
91 “protective hairstyle” and “race”; amending s.
92 1000.21, F.S.; defining the terms “protective
93 hairstyle” and “race”;