Senate Bill sb0870

    Florida Senate - 2005                                   SB 870

    By Senator Crist





    12-575-05                                            See HB 63

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to disabled parking permits;

  3         amending s. 320.0848, F.S.; revising

  4         requirements for certification of disability;

  5         providing an effective date.

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

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  9         Section 1.  Paragraphs (b) and (c) of subsection (1) of

10  section 320.0848, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:

11         320.0848  Persons who have disabilities; issuance of

12  disabled parking permits; temporary permits; permits for

13  certain providers of transportation services to persons who

14  have disabilities.--

15         (1)

16         (b)1.  The person must be currently certified as being

17  legally blind or as having any of the following disabilities

18  that render him or her unable to walk 200 feet without

19  stopping to rest:

20         a.  Inability to walk without the use of or assistance

21  from a brace, cane, crutch, prosthetic device, or other

22  assistive device, or without the assistance of another person.

23  If the assistive device significantly restores the person's

24  ability to walk to the extent that the person can walk without

25  severe limitation, the person is not eligible for the

26  exemption parking permit.

27         b.  The need to permanently use a wheelchair.

28         c.  Restriction by lung disease to the extent that the

29  person's forced (respiratory) expiratory volume for 1 second,

30  when measured by spirometry, is less than 1 liter, or the

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 1  person's arterial oxygen is less than 60 mm/hg on room air at

 2  rest.

 3         d.  Use of portable oxygen.

 4         e.  Restriction by cardiac condition to the extent that

 5  the person's functional limitations are classified in severity

 6  as Class III or Class IV according to standards set by the

 7  American Heart Association.

 8         f.  Severe limitation in the person's ability to walk

 9  due to an arthritic, neurological, or orthopedic condition.

10         2.  The certification of disability which is required

11  under subparagraph 1. must be provided by a physician licensed

12  under chapter 458, chapter 459, or chapter 460, by a podiatric

13  physician licensed under chapter 461, by an optometrist

14  licensed under chapter 463, by an advanced registered nurse

15  practitioner licensed under chapter 464 in a facility operated

16  by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs under the

17  protocol of a licensed physician as stated in this

18  subparagraph, by a physician assistant licensed under chapter

19  458 or chapter 459 in a facility operated by the United States

20  Department of Veterans Affairs, by the Adjudication Office of

21  the United States Department of Veterans Affairs or its

22  predecessor, or by a similarly licensed physician from another

23  state if the application is accompanied by documentation of

24  the physician's licensure in the other state and a form signed

25  by the out-of-state physician verifying his or her knowledge

26  of this state's eligibility guidelines.

27         (c)  The certificate of disability must include, but

28  need not be limited to:

29         1.  The disability of the applicant; the certifying

30  practitioner's physician's name and address; the

31  practitioner's physician's certification number; the

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 1  eligibility criteria for the permit; the penalty for

 2  falsification by either the certifying practitioner physician

 3  or the applicant; the duration of the condition that entitles

 4  the person to the permit; and justification for the additional

 5  placard pursuant to subsection (2).

 6         2.  The statement, in bold letters: "A disabled parking

 7  permit may be issued only for a medical necessity that

 8  severely affects mobility."

 9         3.  The signatures of:

10         a.  The applicant's physician or other certifying

11  practitioner.;

12         b.  The applicant or the applicant's parent or

13  guardian.; and

14         c.  The employee of the department's authorized agent

15  which employee is processing the application.

16         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

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