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Senate Bill 0136
    Florida Senate - 1998                                   SB 136

    By Senator Forman





    32-51-98

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to dog guides and service dogs;

  3         amending s. 413.08, F.S.; prohibiting a person

  4         from interfering with a person who is engaged

  5         in training a dog guide or service dog;

  6         providing penalties; providing an effective

  7         date.

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  9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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11         Section 1.  Subsection (2) of section 413.08, Florida

12  Statutes, is amended to read:

13         413.08  Rights of physically disabled persons; use of

14  dog guides or service dogs or nonhuman primates of the genus

15  Cebus; discrimination in public employment or housing

16  accommodations; penalties.--

17         (2)  Any person, firm, or corporation, or the agent of

18  any person, firm, or corporation, who denies or interferes

19  with admittance to, or enjoyment of, the public facilities

20  enumerated in subsection (1) or otherwise interferes with the

21  rights of a deaf person, hard of hearing person, a totally or

22  partially blind person, or an otherwise physically disabled

23  person under this section, or the trainer of a dog guide or

24  service dog while engaged in the training of such dog pursuant

25  to subsection (7), is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second

26  degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.

27         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 1998.

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30                          SENATE SUMMARY

31    Prohibits interference with a person who is training a
      dog guide or service dog and provides penalties.
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