No. CS/HB 1109
Filed under Occupational.
Services During a State of Emergency; Authorizes DMS to enter into state term contracts for specified services; authorizes individuals to work in specified positions if they meet certain requirements.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDThe Department of Management Services may keep standing state term contracts with multiple vendors for building code inspection and debris removal, ready to activate and make available to local governments once the Governor declares a natural-disaster emergency.
For one year after that declaration, a person may work as a building, electrical, mechanical, or plumbing inspector or plans examiner under a local building official, bypassing Florida's normal certification, if they meet one of three alternate qualifications.
Qualifying paths are: being part of a vendor's state term contract, being qualified for the work in a state with a mutual aid agreement with Florida, or having held a valid out-of-state license for five years before the declaration.
The one-year window runs from the declaration date itself, not from when the emergency ends, and only applies to emergencies from natural events such as hurricanes, floods, droughts, or earthquakes.
AIThe Department of Management Services may enter into and maintain state term contracts with multiple vendors to perform building code inspection and debris removal services, and make these services available to local governments during a declared state of emergency.
AINotwithstanding any other law, a qualifying person may work in any of 14 listed inspector and plans-examiner positions under a local building official's direction for one year after a natural-emergency declaration, without going through Florida's normal certification process.
AIA person can meet this certification's requirements by being qualified to do the work in any state that has a mutual aid agreement with Florida, as one of three alternate ways to qualify.
AIThe one-year certification-by-endorsement window applies only to a "natural emergency," defined as an emergency caused by a natural event such as a hurricane, storm, flood, severe wave action, or drought, not to emergencies declared for other reasons.