Florida Senate - 2020                              CS for SB 538
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Infrastructure and Security; and Senators
       Diaz, Book, Pizzo, and Perry
       
       
       
       
       596-02448-20                                           2020538c1
    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; requiring
    6         the division to annually provide the State Watch
    7         Office Reportable Incidents List to local emergency
    8         managers and the Legislature; requiring the division
    9         to maintain the reportable incidents list; requiring
   10         the division to notify local emergency managers and
   11         the Legislature of any amendments to the reportable
   12         incidents list; providing an effective date.
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   14  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   16         Section 1. Section 252.351, Florida Statutes, is created to
   17  read:
   18         252.351 Mandatory reporting of certain incidents by
   19  counties and municipalities.—
   20         (1) As soon as practicable following its initial response
   21  to an incident, a county or a municipality shall provide
   22  notification to the State Watch Office within the division of
   23  any incidents listed in the State Watch Office Reportable
   24  Incidents List which occur within the geographic boundaries of
   25  the county or municipality.
   26         (2) The division shall annually provide the State Watch
   27  Office Reportable Incidents List to county and municipal
   28  emergency managers, the Speaker of the House of Representatives,
   29  and the President of the Senate.
   30         (3) The division shall maintain the State Watch Office
   31  Reportable Incidents List, and shall annually notify county and
   32  municipal emergency managers, the Speaker of the House of
   33  Representatives, and the President of the Senate when the list
   34  is amended by the division director.
   35         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2020.