RULE NO.: RULE TITLE:
69K-17.002: Application Fees; Licensure by Endorsement for Embalmers and Funeral Directors.
PURPOSE AND EFFECT: This rulemaking eliminates an outdated reference to funeral director and embalmer licensing examination schedules and related outdated procedures and filing deadlines for applying to take the licensing examination. The rulemaking also adds a provision specifying that certain fees are nonrefundable. This proposed rule was approved by the Board of Funeral, Cemetery, and Consumer Services at its monthly meeting on December 2, 2010.
SUBJECT AREA TO BE ADDRESSED: Examination schedule and application procedures; refundability of fees.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY: 497.103(5), 497.141(2), 497.369(1), 497.374(1) FS.
LAW IMPLEMENTED: 497.369, 497.374, 497.141(4) FS.
IF REQUESTED IN WRITING AND NOT DEEMED UNNECESSARY BY THE AGENCY HEAD, A RULE DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP WILL BE HELD AT THE DATE, TIME AND PLACE SHOWN BELOW:
DATE AND TIME: January 11, 2012, 9:00 a.m.
PLACE: 332, Pepper Building, 111 W. Madison Street, Tallahassee, Florida
Pursuant to the provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act, any person requiring special accommodations to participate in this workshop/meeting is asked to advise the agency at least 48 days before the workshop/meeting by contacting: LaTonya Bryant-Parker, at (850)413-4957 or LaTonya.Bryant-Parker@myfloridaCFO.com. If you are hearing or speech impaired, please contact the agency using the Florida Relay Service, 1(800)955-8771 (TDD) or 1(800)955-8770 (Voice).
THE PERSON TO BE CONTACTED REGARDING THE PROPOSED RULE DEVELOPMENT AND A COPY OF THE PRELIMINARY DRAFT, IF AVAILABLE, IS: Douglas Shropshire, Executive Director, Board of Funeral, Cemetery, and Consumer Services, Division of Funeral, Cemetery, and Consumer Services, Department of Financial Services, 200 East Gaines Street, Tallahassee, FL 32399-0361, (850)413-4984, shropshired@MyFloridaCFO.com. Direct any request for rule development workshop to Mr. Shropshire.

THE PRELIMINARY TEXT OF THE PROPOSED RULE DEVELOPMENT IS AVAILABLE AT NO CHARGE FROM THE CONTACT PERSON LISTED ABOVE.