| 1 | The Health Care Regulation Committee recommends the following: |
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| 3 | Council/Committee Substitute |
| 4 | Remove the entire bill and insert: |
| 5 | A bill to be entitled |
| 6 | An act relating to certification of swimming instructors; |
| 7 | creating s. 514.072, F.S.; requiring additional |
| 8 | certification of swimming instructors for people who have |
| 9 | developmental disabilities; requiring the Dan Marino |
| 10 | Foundation, Inc., to develop certification requirements |
| 11 | and a training curriculum and to submit the certification |
| 12 | requirements to the Department of Health for review; |
| 13 | providing deadlines for certification; providing a remedy |
| 14 | for certification violations; providing an appropriation; |
| 15 | providing an effective date. |
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| 17 | Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: |
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| 19 | Section 1. Section 514.072, Florida Statutes, is created |
| 20 | to read: |
| 21 | 514.072 Certification of swimming instructors for people |
| 22 | who have developmental disabilities required.-- |
| 23 | (1) Any person working at a public swimming pool as a |
| 24 | swimming instructor for people who have developmental |
| 25 | disabilities, as defined in s. 393.063(10), must be certified by |
| 26 | the Dan Marino Foundation, Inc., in addition to being certified |
| 27 | under s. 514.071. The Dan Marino Foundation, Inc., must develop |
| 28 | certification requirements and a training curriculum for |
| 29 | swimming instructors for people who have developmental |
| 30 | disabilities and must submit the certification requirements to |
| 31 | the Department of Health for review by January 1, 2007. A person |
| 32 | certified under s. 514.071 before July 1, 2007, must meet the |
| 33 | additional certification requirements of this section before |
| 34 | January 1, 2008. A person certified under s. 514.071 on or after |
| 35 | July 1, 2007, must meet the additional certification |
| 36 | requirements of this section within 6 months after receiving |
| 37 | certification under s. 514.071. |
| 38 | (2) In addition to any other remedies available to the |
| 39 | department, the department may sue to enjoin the operation of |
| 40 | any public swimming pool that uses any swimming instructor in |
| 41 | violation of subsection (1). |
| 42 | Section 2. The sum of $535,000, of which $185,000 is |
| 43 | recurring, is appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to the |
| 44 | Department of Health for distribution to the Dan Marino |
| 45 | Foundation, Inc., for the 2006-2007 fiscal year for the purpose |
| 46 | of implementing this act. |
| 47 | Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2006. |