Full Text of HB1867 99th General Assembly
HB1867ham001 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Rep. Donald L. Moffitt Filed: 4/20/2015
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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 State Fire Marshal, if the | 5 | | subject of the bill is fire departments, or to the Department | 6 | | of Public Health, if the subject of the bill is emergency | 7 | | medical services. The fire department and emergency medical | 8 | | services response time note shall be prepared by the State Fire | 9 | | Marshal or the Department of Public Health, as applicable, and | 10 | | furnished to the sponsor of the bill within 5 calendar days | 11 | | thereafter; except that whenever, because of the complexity of | 12 | | the measure, additional time is required for the preparation of | 13 | | the fire department and emergency medical services note, the | 14 | | State Fire Marshal or the Department of Public Health may so | 15 | | inform the sponsor of the bill and the sponsor may approve an | 16 | | extension not to exceed an additional 5 calendar days within | 17 | | which to furnish the note. An extension may not, however, be | 18 | | beyond May 15 following the date of the request. If both fire | 19 | | departments and emergency medical services are the subjects of | 20 | | the bill, then both the State Fire Marshal and the Department | 21 | | of Public Health shall be presented the bill and each shall | 22 | | prepare a fire department and emergency medical services | 23 | | response time note. | 24 | | Copies of each fire department and emergency medical | 25 | | services response time note shall be furnished by the State | 26 | | Fire Marshal or the Department of Public Health to the |
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| 1 | | presiding officer of each chamber, the minority leader of each | 2 | | chamber, the Clerk of the House of Representatives, the | 3 | | Secretary of the Senate, the sponsor of the bill which is the | 4 | | subject of the note, and the member, if any, who initiated the | 5 | | request for the note. | 6 | | Section 15. Vote on necessity of fire department and | 7 | | emergency medical services response time note. Whenever the | 8 | | sponsor of a bill is of the opinion that a fire department and | 9 | | emergency medical services response time note is not necessary, | 10 | | any member of either chamber may request that a note be | 11 | | obtained, and in that case the applicability of this Act shall | 12 | | be decided by a majority of those present and voting in the | 13 | | chamber of which the sponsor is a member. | 14 | | Section 20. Requisites and contents. The note shall be | 15 | | factual in nature, as brief and concise as may be, and shall | 16 | | provide as reliable an estimate of the bill's impact as is | 17 | | possible under the circumstances. The note shall include both | 18 | | the immediate effect and, if determinable or reasonably | 19 | | foreseeable, the long-range effect of the bill. If, after | 20 | | careful investigation, it is determined that no estimate is | 21 | | possible, the note shall contain a statement to that effect | 22 | | setting forth the reasons why no estimate can be given. | 23 | | Section 25. Comment or opinion; technical or mechanical |
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| 1 | | defects. No comment or opinion shall be included in the note | 2 | | with regard to the merits of the bill for which the note is | 3 | | prepared; however, technical or mechanical defects may be | 4 | | noted. The note shall be prepared in quintuplicate, and the | 5 | | original of the note shall be signed by the State Fire Marshal | 6 | | or the Director of Public Health, as applicable. | 7 | | Section 30. Appearance of State officials and employees in | 8 | | support or opposition of measure. The fact that a fire | 9 | | department and emergency medical services response time note is | 10 | | prepared for a bill shall not preclude or restrict the | 11 | | appearance before any committee of the General Assembly of any | 12 | | official or authorized employee of any State board, commission, | 13 | | department, agency, or other entity that desires to be heard in | 14 | | support of or in opposition to the bill. | 15 | | Section 35. Amendment of bill necessitating statement of | 16 | | effect of proposed amendment. Whenever any committee of either | 17 | | chamber reports any bill with an amendment of such nature as | 18 | | will substantially affect the impact of the bill on the | 19 | | response times of fire departments or emergency medical | 20 | | services, and whenever any bill is amended on the floor of | 21 | | either chamber in such manner as to substantially affect the | 22 | | response times of fire departments or emergency medical | 23 | | services, the State Fire Marshal or the Department of Public | 24 | | Health may, on its own initiative, or shall, within 5 calendar |
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| 1 | | days after a request by any member of the chamber by which the | 2 | | bill is then considered, prepare a new or revised fire | 3 | | department and emergency medical services response time note in | 4 | | relation to the amended bill. If such a request is made, the | 5 | | bill shall be held on second reading until the note is received | 6 | | or the 5 calendar day period has passed. Copies of each new or | 7 | | revised fire department and emergency medical services | 8 | | response time note shall be furnished to the persons named in | 9 | | Section 10. | 10 | | Section 40. Confidentiality. The subject matter of bills | 11 | | submitted to the shall be kept in strict confidence by the | 12 | | State Fire Marshal and the Department of Public Health, and no | 13 | | information relating to the bill or its insurance cost impact | 14 | | shall be divulged by any official or employee of the State Fire | 15 | | Marshal or the Department of Public Health, except to the | 16 | | bill's sponsor or the sponsor's designee, before the bill's | 17 | | introduction in the General Assembly.".
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