Florida Senate - 2015                       CS for CS for SB 394
       
       
        
       By the Committees on Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and
       Domestic Security; and Regulated Industries; and Senator Brandes
       
       
       
       
       583-02113-15                                           2015394c2
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to public lodging establishments;
    3         creating s. 509.095, F.S.; requiring specified public
    4         lodging establishments to waive certain policies for
    5         individuals who are currently on active duty who
    6         present a valid military identification card;
    7         prohibiting duplication of military identification
    8         cards; providing an effective date.
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   10  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   12         Section 1. Section 509.095, Florida Statutes, is created to
   13  read:
   14         509.095 Accommodations at public lodging establishments for
   15  individuals with a valid military identification card.—Upon the
   16  presentation of a valid military identification card by an
   17  individual who is currently on active duty as a member of the
   18  United States Armed Forces, National Guard, Reserve Forces, or
   19  Coast Guard, and who seeks to obtain accommodations at a hotel,
   20  motel, or bed and breakfast inn, as defined in s. 509.242, such
   21  hotel, motel, or bed and breakfast inn shall waive any minimum
   22  age policy that it may have which restricts accommodations to
   23  individuals based on age. Duplication of a military
   24  identification card presented pursuant to this section is
   25  prohibited.
   26         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2015.