Florida Senate - 2018 SENATOR AMENDMENT Bill No. CS for SB 7026 Ì528456CÎ528456 LEGISLATIVE ACTION Senate . House . . . . . ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— Senator Powell moved the following: 1 Senate Amendment to Amendment (234288) (with title 2 amendment) 3 4 Between lines 1170 and 1171 5 insert: 6 Section 19. Section 943.17161, Florida Statutes, is created 7 to read: 8 943.17161 Continued employment training relating to mental 9 illness.—The department shall establish a continued employment 10 training component relating to mental illness as defined in s. 11 394.455. The training component shall include, but need not be 12 limited to, instruction on the recognition of the symptoms and 13 characteristics of an individual with a mental illness and 14 appropriate responses to an individual exhibiting such symptoms 15 and characteristics. Completion of the training component may 16 count toward the 40 hours of instruction for continued 17 employment or appointment as a law enforcement officer required 18 under s. 943.135. 19 20 ================= T I T L E A M E N D M E N T ================ 21 And the title is amended as follows: 22 Delete line 2529 23 and insert: 24 reporting tool; creating s. 943.17161, F.S.; requiring 25 the Department of Law Enforcement to establish a 26 continued employment training component relating to 27 mental illness; defining the term “mental illness”; 28 specifying instruction to be included in the training 29 component; providing that completion of the training 30 may count toward continued employment or appointment 31 instruction requirements; creating s. 943.687, F.S.; 32 creating