Florida Senate - 2018                                    SB 1444
       
       
        
       By Senator Powell
       
       
       
       
       
       30-01507-18                                           20181444__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to building standards for health care
    3         facilities; amending s. 553.73, F.S.; providing that
    4         the Florida Building Code must require public and
    5         private health care facilities to have an operational
    6         emergency power source; defining the term “emergency
    7         power source”; providing an effective date.
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    9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   11         Section 1. Subsection (21) is added to section 553.73,
   12  Florida Statutes, to read:
   13         553.73 Florida Building Code.—
   14         (21) The Florida Building Code must require all public and
   15  private health care facilities to have an operational emergency
   16  power source. For purposes of this subsection, the term
   17  “emergency power source” means a system that provides an
   18  independent source of electric power during a loss of power
   19  supply and includes a quantity of fuel sufficient to sustain the
   20  emergency power source for at least 7 days during a power
   21  outage. An emergency power source may include a generator,
   22  batteries, and other essential accessories needed to operate the
   23  emergency power source.
   24         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2018.