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Notice: 6319082

Notice of Proposed Rule

Department:

DEPARTMENT OF FINANCIAL SERVICES

Division:

Division of Funeral, Cemetery, and Consumer Services

Chapter:

Fees and Continuing Education

Overview

RULE:

69K-17.0035

Communicable Disease Education Required for Operational Personnel.

PURPOSE:

Section 497.162, F.S., requires certain employees to complete a communicable disease educational class and requires the Board to adopt rules that provide for the use of approved videocassette courses and other types of audio, video, Internet, or home study courses to fulfill this educational requirement. The proposed amendment clarifies which employees are required to take a communicable disease course and updates the types of courses that can be used to fulfill this educational requirement.

SUMMARY:

The proposed amendment requires operational personnel, as defined by Rule 69K-15.005, F.A.C., to take and pass a two hour course on communicable diseases. Rule 69K-15.005, F.A.C., defines “operational personnel” as “those individuals who come in direct contact with or remove or transport dead human remains, or those individuals who come in direct contact with blood or other body fluids.” The proposed amendments also implement the changes made by Chapter 2007-55, Laws of Florida, by allowing operational personnel to use the Internet to take approved communicable disease education courses required by Section 497.162, F.S.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY:

497.103(1)(s), (5)(a), 497.162 FS.

LAW:

497.162 FS.

PRINT PUBLISH DATE:

10/24/2008 Vol. 34/43

COMMENTS:

From 10/24/2008 To 11/14/2008 (21 Days)
The public comment period for this notice has already expired.

REFERENCE MATERIALS:

No reference(s).

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