Florida Senate - 2021                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1192
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  03/09/2021           .                                
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       The Committee on Criminal Justice (Powell) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 21 - 30
    4  and insert:
    5  training component relating to mental illness. For purposes of
    6  this section, the term “mental illness” means an impairment of
    7  the mental or emotional processes that exercise conscious
    8  control of one’s actions or of the ability to perceive or
    9  understand reality, which impairment substantially interferes
   10  with the person’s ability to meet the ordinary demands of
   11  living. The training component must include, but need not be
   12  limited to, instruction on the recognition of the symptoms or
   13  characteristics of an individual with a mental illness and
   14  appropriate responses to an individual exhibiting such symptoms
   15  or characteristics. Completion of the training component may
   16  count toward the 40 hours of instruction for continued
   17  employment or appointment as a law enforcement officer required
   18  under s. 943.135.
   19         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2022.
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   22  And the title is amended as follows:
   23         Delete line 6
   24  and insert:
   25         relating to mental illness; defining the term “mental
   26         illness”; requiring that the
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