Florida House Bill 237 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: Failed on March 9 2012 - 100% progression
Action: 2012-03-09 - Died in Business and Consumer Affairs Subcommittee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Provides requirements for employment of children in entertainment industry; provides responsibilities of employers & parents or legal guardians of such children; requires preauthorization certificate for each child; provides duties of Division of Regulation within DBPR; provides limitations on working hours of child performers; provides certification requirements & duties of teachers & trainers of child performers; requires trust account for certain children employed in entertainment industry; provides safety requirements for child performers; provides criteria for wage claims; provides requirements for resolving such claims; provides grounds under which division may refuse to issue or renew preauthorization certificate & procedures for challenging such determination.

Employment of Children by the Entertainment Industry

Sen. Geraldine Thompson [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-03-09		Died in Business and Consumer Affairs Subcommittee
2012-01-10		Introduced -HJ 25
2011-10-17		Referred to Business and Consumer Affairs Subcommittee; Government Operations Appropriations Subcommittee; Economic Affairs Committee -HJ 25
2011-09-29		Filed

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
450	021		Amended Code	See Bill Text
450	132		Amended Code	See Bill Text
562	13		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/237
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/0237/BillText/Filed/HTML