Florida Senate - 2022                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 514
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       The Committee on Governmental Oversight and Accountability
       (Burgess) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Section 112.219, Florida Statutes, is created
    6  to read:
    7         112.219 Substitution of work experience for postsecondary
    8  educational requirements.-
    9         (1) Beginning July 1, 2022, the head of an employing agency
   10  may elect to substitute verifiable, related work experience in
   11  lieu of postsecondary educational requirements for a position of
   12  employment if the person seeking the position of employment is
   13  otherwise qualified for such position.
   14         (2) Related work experience may not substitute for any
   15  required licensure, certification, or registration required for
   16  the position of employment as established by the employing
   17  agency and indicated in the advertised description of the
   18  position of employment.
   19         (3) If the head of an employing agency elects to substitute
   20  related work experience for postsecondary educational
   21  requirements, the employing agency must include, in all
   22  advertisements for the position of employment made by the
   23  employing agency, a notice that such substitution is authorized
   24  and a description of the related work experience equivalencies
   25  that may be substituted for the required postsecondary
   26  education.
   27         (4) This section does not abridge state and federal laws
   28  and regulations governing equal opportunity employment.
   29         (5) For purposes of this section, the term "employing
   30  agency" means any agency or unit of government of the state or
   31  any county, municipality, or political subdivision thereof,
   32  including special districts, that is authorized to employ
   33  personnel to carry out the responsibilities of the agency or
   34  unit of government.
   35         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2022.
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   39  And the title is amended as follows:
   40         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   41  and insert:
   42                        A bill to be entitled                      
   43         An act relating to substitution of work experience for
   44         postsecondary educational requirements; creating s.
   45         112.129, F.S.; authorizing the head of an employing
   46         agency, beginning on a specified date, to elect to
   47         substitute certain work experience for postsecondary
   48         educational requirements under certain circumstances;
   49         prohibiting the substitution of certain work
   50         experience for postsecondary educational requirements;
   51         providing advertising requirements relating to
   52         positions of employment; specifying that certain laws
   53         and regulations governing equal opportunity employment
   54         apply; providing a definition; providing an effective
   55         date.