Florida HB 457: Unlawful Distribution of Controlled Substances Resulting in Death

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A bill to be entitled 1
An act relating to alternative sources of weather 2
information; amending s. 252.35, F.S.; revising the 3
requirements of the state comprehensive emergency plan 4
to include the evaluation of the integration of 5
supplemental weather observational data and advanced 6
forecasting products and the effects on specified 7
areas; creating s. 252.396, F.S.; defining the terms 8
"advanced forecasting products" and "supplemental 9
weather observational data"; requiring the Division of 10
Emergency Management to take specified actions to 11
integrate, evaluate, and promote supplemental weather 12
observational data and advanced forecasting products 13
in a certain manner; providing an effective date. 14
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Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 16
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Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of section 18
252.35, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: 19
252.35 Emergency management powers; Division of Emergency 20
Management.— 21
(2) The division is responsible for carrying out the 22
provisions of ss. 252.31-252.90. In performing its duties, the 23
division shall: 24
(a) Prepare a state comprehensive emergency management 25

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plan, which must be integrated into and coordinated with the 26
emergency management plans and programs of the Federal 27
Government. The division shall adopt the plan as a rule in 28
accordance with chapter 120. The plan must be implemented by a 29
continuous, integrated comprehensive emergency management 30
program. The plan must contain provisions to ensure that the 31
state is prepared for emergencies and minor, major, and 32
catastrophic disasters, and the division shall work closely with 33
local governments and agencies and organizations with emergency 34
management responsibilities in preparing and maintaining the 35
plan. The state comprehensive emergency management plan must be 36
operations oriented and: 37
1. Include an evacuation component that includes specific 38
regional and interregional planning provisions and promotes 39
intergovernmental coordination of evacuation activities. This 40
component must, at a minimum: contain guidelines for lifting 41
tolls on state highways; ensure coordination pertaining to 42
evacuees crossing county lines; set forth procedures for 43
directing people caught on evacuation routes to safe shelter; 44
establish strategies for ensuring sufficient, reasonably priced 45
fueling locations along evacuation routes; and establish 46
policies and strategies for emergency medical evacuations. 47
2. Include a shelter component that includes specific 48
regional and interregional planning provisions and promotes 49
coordination of shelter activities between the public, private, 50

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and nonprofit sectors. This component must, at a minimum: 51
contain strategies to ensure the availability of adequate public 52
shelter space in each county; establish strategies for refuge-53
of-last-resort programs; provide strategies to assist local 54
emergency management efforts to ensure that adequate staffing 55
plans exist for all shelters, including medical and security 56
personnel; provide for a postdisaster communications system for 57
public shelters; establish model shelter guidelines for 58
operations, registration, inventory, power generation 59
capability, information management, and staffing; and set forth 60
policy guidance for sheltering people with special needs. 61
3. Include a postdisaster response and recovery component 62
that includes specific regional and interregional planning 63
provisions and promotes intergovernmental coordination of 64
postdisaster response and recovery activities. This component 65
must provide for postdisaster response and recovery strategies 66
according to whether a disaster is minor, major, or 67
catastrophic. The postdisaster response and recovery component 68
must, at a minimum: establish the structure of the state's 69
postdisaster response and recovery organization; establish 70
procedures for activating the state's plan; set forth policies 71
used to guide postdisaster response and recovery activities; 72
describe the chain of command during the postdisaster response 73
and recovery period; describe initial and continuous 74
postdisaster response and recovery actions; identify the roles 75

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and responsibilities of each involved agency and