Florida Senate - 2012 SENATOR AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS for CS for SB 1816
Barcode 574746
LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Senate . House
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Floor: 9/F/2R .
03/07/2012 01:42 PM .
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Senator Lynn moved the following:
1 Senate Amendment (with directory and title amendments)
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3 Delete lines 251 - 287
4 and insert:
5 (3) Institutions within the Florida College System, the
6 State University System, and nonpublic institutions defined in
7 s. 1005.02, shall notify the employees of the institutions of
8 the mandatory reporting requirements in s. 39.201. In addition
9 to notifying employees of the requirement to report all known or
10 suspected incidents of child abuse, abandonment, or neglect to
11 the department, each institution shall provide a procedure for
12 reporting such incidents committed on the property of the
13 institution to a designated official at the institution. For
14 purposes of this paragraph incidents of child abuse,
15 abandonment, and neglect shall include incidents of hazing as
16 defined in s. 1006.135. The designated official is responsible
17 for reporting an incident of known or suspected child abuse,
18 abandonment, or neglect to the department. If the designated
19 official knowingly and willfully fails to report known or
20 suspected child abuse, abandonment, or neglect that is reported
21 by an employee of the institution, to the department, and is
22 later convicted for failing to comply with the reporting
23 requirements, an investigation shall be conducted by the State
24 Board of Education, the Board of Governors, or the Commission
25 for Independent Education, as appropriate, to determine whether
26 the institution provided the reporting mechanism required by
27 this section. If the investigating board determines that the
28 institution was materially noncompliant, the investigating board
29 shall assess a fine of $25,000 on the institution. The
30 investigating board’s determination is subject to review before
31 the appropriate tribunal. Any fines payable under this section
32 shall be used to support state-sponsored child abuse prevention
33 programs.
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36 And the directory clause is amended as follows:
37 Delete lines 235 - 239
38 and insert:
39 Section 2. Subsections (3) through (6) of section 39.205,
40 Florida Statutes, are renumbered as subsections (4) through (7),
41 respectively, a new subsection (3) is added to that section, and
42 subsection (1) of that section is amended, to read:
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45 And the title is amended as follows:
46 Delete lines 18 - 24
47 and insert:
48 requiring institutions within the Florida College
49 System and the State University System and nonpublic
50 institutions to apprise all employees of the mandatory
51 reporting requirements for abused, abandoned, or
52 neglected children; requiring each institution to
53 provide procedures to report such incidents committed
54 on the property of the institution to a designated
55 office at the institution; providing that the
56 designated office is responsible for reporting an
57 incident of known or suspected child abuse,
58 abandonment, or neglect to the Department of Children
59 and Family Services and to the president of the
60 institution; requiring that certain designated
61 organizations conduct an investigation to determine if
62 adequate institutional controls were in place to
63 require compliance with the mandatory reporting
64 requirements; authorizing the department to assess a
65 fine up to $25,000 against the institution under
66 certain circumstances; providing that any fine payable
67 under this section must be used to support state
68 sponsored child abuse prevention programs; creating s.
69 39.309, F.S.; requiring the