Florida Senate - 2023 SB 692



By Senator Book





35-00556-23 2023692__
1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to public lodging establishments;
3 amending s. 509.096, F.S.; prohibiting the Division of
4 Hotels and Restaurants of the Department of Business
5 and Professional Regulation from providing a
6 correction period to public lodging establishments for
7 a second or subsequent violation for failure to comply
8 with certain requirements; requiring the division to
9 impose the administrative fine for a second or
10 subsequent violation; providing an effective date.
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12 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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14 Section 1. Subsection (3) of section 509.096, Florida
15 Statutes, is amended to read:
16 509.096 Human trafficking awareness training and policies
17 for employees of public lodging establishments; enforcement.—
18 (3) The division shall impose an administrative fine of
19 $2,000 per day on a public lodging establishment that is not in
20 compliance with this section and remit the fines to the direct
21 support organization established under s. 16.618, unless the
22 division receives adequate written documentation from the public
23 lodging establishment which provides assurance that each
24 deficiency will be corrected within 90 days after the division
25 provided the public lodging establishment with notice of its
26 violation for the first violation. The division may not provide
27 a correction period to a public lodging establishment that
28 violates this subsection for a second or subsequent time. The
29 division shall impose the administrative fine under this
30 subsection for a second or subsequent violation of this section.
31 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2023.

Statutes affected:
S 692 Filed: 509.096