Florida HB 849: Transportation Facility Designations

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A bill to be entitled 1
An act relating to the Department of Law Enforcement; 2
amending s. 112.195, F.S.; authorizing the Department 3
of Law Enforcement to adopt rules relating to the 4
Florida Medal of Valor and Florida Blue/Red Heart 5
Medal programs; amending s. 406.02, F.S.; specifying 6
that appointments and reappointments of members to the 7
Medical Examiners Commission within the department are 8
considered in force until certain conditions are met; 9
requiring the commission to appoint district medical 10
examiners by a majority vote to fill vacancies; 11
amending s. 406.06, F.S.; requiring the commission, 12
rather than the Governor, to appoint district medical 13
examiners for medical examiner districts; providing 14
that physician members of the commission are eligible 15
to serve as district medical examiners upon approval 16
by the commission, rather than by the Governor; 17
amending s. 406.135, F.S.; authorizing an organ 18
procurement organization, an eye bank, or a tissue 19
bank to view or copy specified autopsy reports under 20
certain circumstances; creating s. 943.0536, F.S.; 21
requiring the Criminal Justice Information Program to 22
collect, process, store, maintain, and disseminate 23
records containing immigration detainer information 24
under specified circumstances; requiring law 25

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enforcement agencies to capture and submit 26
fingerprints of specified offenders to the department; 27
requiring the department to create certain records; 28
defining the terms "immigration detainer" and "law 29
enforcement agency"; amending s. 943.0581, F.S.; 30
authorizing the department to adopt a rule for the 31
administrative expunction of specified records under 32
certain circumstances; authorizing applications for 33
the administrative expunction of specified records 34
under certain circumstances; providing requirements 35
for an application for administrative expunction of 36
specified records; providing construction; amending s. 37
943.11, F.S.; requiring the Criminal Justice 38
Professionalism Program to provide staff support to 39
the Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission 40
within the department; requiring the commission to act 41
independently of any criminal justice agency; amending 42
s. 943.1395, F.S.; providing manners of administrative 43
complaint service by the Criminal Justice Standards 44
and Training Commission to law enforcement, 45
correctional, and correctional probation officers; 46
amending ss. 943.1726, 943.17261, 943.1727, and 47
943.17299, F.S.; requiring the Criminal Justice 48
Standards and Training Commission, rather than the 49
department, to establish online continued employment 50

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training components relating to diabetic emergencies, 51
online initial training and continuing education 52
courses relating to medical use of marijuana, 53
continued employment training components relating to 54
autism spectrum disorder, and online continued 55
employment training components relating to Alzheimer's 56
disease and related forms of dementia, respectively; 57
providing effective dates. 58
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Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 60
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Section 1. Effective upon becoming a law, subsection (4) 62
is added to section 112.195, Florida Statutes, to read: 63
112.195 Florida Medal of Valor and Florida Blue/Red Heart 64
Medal.— 65
(4) The Department of Law Enforcement may adopt rules to 66
implement this section. 67
Section 2. Paragraphs (b) and (c) of subsection (4) of 68
section 406.02, Florida Statutes, are redesignated as paragraphs 69
(c) and (d), respectively, subsection (2) is amended, and a new 70
paragraph (b) is added to subsection (4) of that section, to 71
read: 72
406.02 Medical Examiners Commission; membership; terms; 73
duties; staff.— 74
(2) The term of office of the physicians appointed to the 75

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commission shall be 4 years. The term of office of the state 76
attorney, public defender, sheriff, and county commissioner each 77
shall be 4 years unless she or he leaves that office sooner, in 78
which case her or his appointment will terminate. The term of 79
office of the funeral director shall be 4 years. Upon the 80
expiration of the present terms of office, the Governor shall 81
appoint two members for terms of 4 years, two members for terms 82
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