Florida Senate Bill 740 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: Failed on March 11 2016 - 100% progression
Action: 2016-03-11 - Died in Transportation
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Requiring the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to create a form that an individual must complete for an identification card and a placard that indicate the individual is deaf; establishing a database of individuals who are deaf; requiring the Department of Law Enforcement to include information from the forms in the database; requiring a law enforcement agency to have at least one on-call officer who is trained in or knows American Sign Language or to contract with qualified interpreters, etc.

Persons Who are Deaf

Sen. Darren Soto [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-03-11	Senate	Died in Transportation
2016-01-12	Senate	Introduced
2015-11-18	Senate	Referred to Transportation; Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Appropriations
2015-11-04	Senate	Filed

H0487 (Similar To) 2016-03-11 - Died on Calendar, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 7061 (Ch. 2016-239)
S1394 (Similar To) 2016-03-11 - Died on Calendar, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 231 (Ch. 2016-77), HB 7027 (Ch. 2016-181), CS/CS/HB 7061 (Ch. 2016-239)

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
320	0849		Amended Code	See Bill Text
901	245		Amended Code	See Bill Text
943	0322		Amended Code	See Bill Text
943	1723		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2016/740
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2016/0740/BillText/Filed/HTML