Senate Bill sb0668

    Florida Senate - 2005                                   SB 668

    By Senator Jones





    13-680-05                                           See HB 127

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to defibrillators in state

  3         parks; creating s. 258.0165, F.S.; encouraging

  4         state parks to have a functioning automated

  5         external defibrillator; requiring training,

  6         maintenance, and location registration;

  7         providing immunity from liability under the

  8         Good Samaritan Act and the Cardiac Arrest

  9         Survival Act; authorizing the Division of

10         Recreation and Parks to adopt rules; providing

11         an appropriation; providing an effective date.

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

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15         Section 1.  Section 258.0165, Florida Statutes, is

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17         258.0165  Defibrillators in state parks.--

18         (1)  Each state park is encouraged to have on the

19  premises at all times a functioning automated external

20  defibrillator.

21         (2)  State parks that provide automated external

22  defibrillators shall ensure that employees and volunteers are

23  properly trained in accordance with s. 401.2915.

24         (3)  The location of each automated external

25  defibrillator shall be registered with a local emergency

26  medical services medical director.

27         (4)  The use of automated external defibrillators by

28  employees and volunteers shall be covered under the provisions

29  of ss. 768.13 and 768.1325.

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    Florida Senate - 2005                                   SB 668
    13-680-05                                           See HB 127




 1         (5)  The Division of Recreation and Parks may adopt

 2  rules pursuant to ss. 120.536(1) and 120.54 to implement the

 3  provisions of this section.

 4         Section 2.  The sum of $214,000 is appropriated from

 5  the General Revenue Fund to the Division of Recreation and

 6  Parks of the Department of Environmental Protection for the

 7  purpose of implementing this act during the 2005-2006 fiscal

 8  year. The division shall arrange for the purchase of as many

 9  automated external defibrillators as may be purchased with

10  available funds.

11         Section 3.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

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