Full Text of HB1867 99th General Assembly
HB1867ham003 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Rep. Donald L. Moffitt Filed: 4/23/2015
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1867
| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1867 by replacing | 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
| 4 | | "Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Fire | 5 | | Department and Emergency Medical Services Response Time Note | 6 | | Act. | 7 | | Section 5. Applicability. Every bill, the purpose or effect | 8 | | of which potentially could result in increases or decreases in | 9 | | fire department or emergency medical services response times, | 10 | | shall have prepared for it, before second reading in the house | 11 | | of introduction, a brief explanatory statement or note that | 12 | | shall include a reliable estimate of the anticipated impact on | 13 | | the response times for fire departments and emergency medical | 14 | | services. These notes shall be known as fire department and | 15 | | emergency medical services response time notes. |
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| 1 | | Section 10. Preparation. The sponsor of each bill, to which | 2 | | Section 5 applies, shall present a copy of the bill, with his | 3 | | or her request for a fire department and emergency medical | 4 | | services response time note to the Office of the State Fire | 5 | | Marshal, if the subject of the bill is fire departments, or to | 6 | | the Department of Public Health, if the subject of the bill is | 7 | | emergency medical services. The fire department and emergency | 8 | | medical services response time note shall be prepared by the | 9 | | Office of the State Fire Marshal or the Department of Public | 10 | | Health, as applicable, and furnished to the sponsor of the bill | 11 | | within 5 calendar days thereafter; except that whenever, | 12 | | because of the complexity of the measure, additional time is | 13 | | required for the preparation of the fire department and | 14 | | emergency medical services note, the Office of the State Fire | 15 | | Marshal or the Department of Public Health may so inform the | 16 | | sponsor of the bill and the sponsor may approve an extension | 17 | | not to exceed an additional 5 calendar days within which to | 18 | | furnish the note. An extension may not, however, be beyond May | 19 | | 15 following the date of the request. If both fire departments | 20 | | and emergency medical services are the subjects of the bill, | 21 | | then both the Office of the State Fire Marshal and the | 22 | | Department of Public Health shall be presented the bill and | 23 | | each shall prepare a fire department and emergency medical | 24 | | services response time note. | 25 | | Copies of each fire department and emergency medical | 26 | | services response time note shall be furnished by the Office of |
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| 1 | | the State Fire Marshal or the Department of Public Health to | 2 | | the presiding officer of each chamber, the minority leader of | 3 | | each chamber, the Clerk of the House of Representatives, the | 4 | | Secretary of the Senate, the sponsor of the bill which is the | 5 | | subject of the note, and the member, if any, who initiated the | 6 | | request for the note. | 7 | | Section 15. Vote on necessity of fire department and | 8 | | emergency medical services response time note. Whenever the | 9 | | sponsor of a bill is of the opinion that a fire department and | 10 | | emergency medical services response time note is not necessary, | 11 | | any member of either chamber may request that a note be | 12 | | obtained, and in that case the applicability of this Act shall | 13 | | be decided by a majority of those present and voting in the | 14 | | chamber of which the sponsor is a member. | 15 | | Section 20. Requisites and contents. The note shall be | 16 | | factual in nature, as brief and concise as may be, and shall | 17 | | provide as reliable an estimate of the bill's impact as is | 18 | | possible under the circumstances. The note shall include both | 19 | | the immediate effect and, if determinable or reasonably | 20 | | foreseeable, the long-range effect of the bill. If, after | 21 | | careful investigation, it is determined that no estimate is | 22 | | possible, the note shall contain a statement to that effect | 23 | | setting forth the reasons why no estimate can be given. |
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| 1 | | Section 25. Comment or opinion; technical or mechanical | 2 | | defects. No comment or opinion shall be included in the note | 3 | | with regard to the merits of the bill for which the note is | 4 | | prepared; however, technical or mechanical defects may be | 5 | | noted. The note shall be prepared in quintuplicate, and the | 6 | | original of the note shall be signed by the Office of the State | 7 | | Fire Marshal or the Director of Public Health, as applicable. | 8 | | Section 30. Appearance of State officials and employees in | 9 | | support or opposition of measure. The fact that a fire | 10 | | department and emergency medical services response time note is | 11 | | prepared for a bill shall not preclude or restrict the | 12 | | appearance before any committee of the General Assembly of any | 13 | | official or authorized employee of any State board, commission, | 14 | | department, agency, or other entity that desires to be heard in | 15 | | support of or in opposition to the bill. | 16 | | Section 35. Amendment of bill necessitating statement of | 17 | | effect of proposed amendment. Whenever any committee of either | 18 | | chamber reports any bill with an amendment of such nature as | 19 | | will substantially affect the impact of the bill on the | 20 | | response times of fire departments or emergency medical | 21 | | services, and whenever any bill is amended on the floor of | 22 | | either chamber in such manner as to substantially affect the | 23 | | response times of fire departments or emergency medical | 24 | | services, the Office of the State Fire Marshal or the |
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| 1 | | Department of Public Health may, on its own initiative, or | 2 | | shall, within 5 calendar days after a request by any member of | 3 | | the chamber by which the bill is then considered, prepare a new | 4 | | or revised fire department and emergency medical services | 5 | | response time note in relation to the amended bill. If such a | 6 | | request is made, the bill shall be held on second reading until | 7 | | the note is received or the 5 calendar day period has passed. | 8 | | Copies of each new or revised fire department and emergency | 9 | | medical services response time note shall be furnished to the | 10 | | persons named in Section 10. | 11 | | Section 40. Confidentiality. The subject matter of bills | 12 | | submitted to the Office of the State Fire Marshal or the | 13 | | Department of Public Health shall be kept in strict confidence | 14 | | by the Office of the State Fire Marshal and the Department of | 15 | | Public Health, and no information relating to the bill or its | 16 | | insurance cost impact shall be divulged by any official or | 17 | | employee of the Office of the State Fire Marshal or the | 18 | | Department of Public Health, except to the bill's sponsor or | 19 | | the sponsor's designee, before the bill's introduction in the | 20 | | General Assembly.".
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