Florida Senate - 2023                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 782
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       The Committee on Fiscal Policy (Garcia) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 120 and 121
    4  insert:
    5         Section 5. Subsection (3) of section 509.096, Florida
    6  Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         509.096 Human trafficking awareness training and policies
    8  for employees of public lodging establishments; enforcement.—
    9         (3) For a violation committed on or after July 1, 2023, the
   10  division shall impose an administrative fine of $2,000 per day
   11  on a public lodging establishment that is not in compliance with
   12  this section and remit the fines to the direct-support
   13  organization established under s. 16.618, unless the division
   14  receives adequate written documentation from the public lodging
   15  establishment which provides assurance that each deficiency will
   16  be corrected within 45 90 days after the division provided the
   17  public lodging establishment with notice of its violation. For a
   18  second or subsequent violation of this subsection committed on
   19  or after July 1, 2023, the division may not provide a correction
   20  period to a public lodging establishment and must impose the
   21  applicable administrative fines.  
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   24  And the title is amended as follows:
   25         Delete line 22
   26  and insert:
   27         inspection reports by email; amending 509.096, F.S.;
   28         reducing the correction period for a public lodging
   29         establishment to respond to a violation committed on
   30         or after a specified date; prohibiting the Division of
   31         Hotels and Restaurants of the Department of Business
   32         and Professional Regulation from providing a
   33         correction period to a public lodging establishment
   34         for a second or subsequent violation committed on or
   35         after a specified date; requiring the division to
   36         impose the applicable administrative fines for such
   37         violations; amending s. 509.101,