Florida Senate - 2020                                     SB 538
       
       
        
       By Senator Diaz
       
       
       
       
       
       36-00812-20                                            2020538__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to emergency reporting; creating s.
    3         252.351, F.S.; requiring a county or municipality to
    4         report certain incidents to the State Watch Office
    5         within the Division of Emergency Management;
    6         authorizing the division to establish guidelines to
    7         specify additional information that must be provided
    8         by a reporting county or municipality; providing an
    9         effective date.
   10          
   11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   12  
   13         Section 1. Section 252.351, Florida Statutes, is created to
   14  read:
   15         252.351 Mandatory reporting of certain incidents by
   16  counties and municipalities.—
   17         (1) As soon as practicable following its initial response
   18  to an incident, a county or a municipality shall provide
   19  notification to the State Watch Office within the division of
   20  any of the following incidents that occur within the geographic
   21  boundaries of the county or municipality:
   22         (a) Major fire incidents and search and rescue operations,
   23  including wildfires, multiunit commercial or residential fires,
   24  industrial accidents, structure collapses, urban search and
   25  rescue responses, and transportation incidents requiring a
   26  search and rescue response.
   27         (b) Law enforcement incidents and other suspicious
   28  activity, including bomb threats, the report of a threat to
   29  inflict harm on large numbers of people or significant damage to
   30  critical infrastructure, a device detonation, the discovery of
   31  any suspicious device, civil events or disturbances, rioting,
   32  any law enforcement search or manhunt for a violent felony
   33  suspect, active shooter or active shooting situations, looting,
   34  poisoning, any incidents involving a suspicious powder,
   35  correctional facility incidents, a cyber-related infrastructure
   36  breach, a lockdown, and a security breach.
   37         (c) Natural hazards, including earthquakes, ground
   38  subsidence or sinkholes, severe weather reports, and severe
   39  weather damage.
   40         (d) Population protective actions, including any public
   41  health hazards, the establishment of shelter-in-place orders or
   42  evacuation orders, emergency shelter openings, hazards involving
   43  animals or agriculture, and food supply contamination or
   44  recalls.
   45         (e) Technical hazards or environmental concerns, including
   46  petroleum spills; wastewater releases; hazardous material spills
   47  and releases; chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear
   48  incidents; nuclear power plant events; and environmental crimes.
   49         (f) Transportation incidents, including incidents involving
   50  aircraft or airports, railroad accidents or derailments, major
   51  road or bridge closings, and incidents involving marine vessels
   52  that block a navigable channel of a major waterway.
   53         (g) Incidents involving utilities or infrastructure,
   54  including dam failure or overtopping, a drinking water facility
   55  breach, a water quality issue or boil water advisory, and
   56  utility disruptions or major outages involving transmission
   57  lines or substations.
   58         (h) Military events, when information regarding such
   59  activity is provided to local officials.
   60         (2) The division may establish guidelines specifying
   61  additional information that a county or municipality must
   62  provide to the State Watch Office when reporting an incident
   63  pursuant to subsection (1).
   64         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2020.