Title: Retail Sales Establishments

Summary: Encourages retail sales establishments to have functioning automated external defibrillator; requires training, maintenance, & location registration; provides immunity from liability under Good Samaritan Act & Cardiac Arrest Survival Act; authorizes DBPR to adopt rules.

Full Text:
An act relating to retail sales establishments; creating s. 501.1425, F.S.; encouraging retail sales establishments to have a functioning automated external defibrillator; requiring training, maintenance, and location registration; providing immunity from liability under the Good Samaritan Act and the Cardiac Arrest Survival Act; authorizing the Department of Business and Professional Regulation to adopt rules; providing an effective date. 11 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 13 Section 1. Section 501.1425, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: 501.1425 Defibrillators in retail sales establishments.-(1) Each retail sales establishment is encouraged to have on the premises at all times a functioning automated external defibrillator. (2) Retail sales establishments that provide automated external defibrillators shall ensure that employees and volunteers are properly trained in accordance with s. 401.2915. (3) The location of each automated external defibrillator shall be registered with a local emergency medical services medical director. (4) The use of automated external defibrillators by employees and volunteers shall be covered under the provisions of ss. 768.13 and 768.1325. (5) The Department of Business and Professional Regulation may adopt rules to implement this section. Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2011.