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Senate Bill 0140
    Florida Senate - 1998                                   SB 140

    By Senator Forman





    32-19-98

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to public records; amending s.

  3         119.07, F.S.; providing an exemption from the

  4         public records law for certain records

  5         furnished pursuant to certain housing

  6         assistance programs; providing a statement of

  7         public necessity; providing for future review

  8         and repeal; providing an effective date.

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10  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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12         Section 1.  Paragraph (cc) is added to subsection (3)

13  of section 119.07, Florida Statutes, to read:

14         119.07  Inspection, examination, and duplication of

15  records; exemptions.--

16         (3)

17         (cc)1.  Medical history records, bank account numbers,

18  credit card numbers, telephone numbers, and information

19  related to health or property insurance furnished by an

20  individual to any agency pursuant to federal, state, or local

21  housing assistance programs are exempt from the provisions of

22  subsection (1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution.

23  Any other information produced or received by any private or

24  public entity in direct connection with federal, state, or

25  local housing assistance programs, unless the subject of

26  another federal or state exemption, is subject to subsection

27  (1).

28         2.  Governmental agencies or their agents are entitled

29  to access to the records specified in this paragraph for the

30  purposes of auditing federal, state, or local housing programs

31  or housing assistance programs.

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    Florida Senate - 1998                                   SB 140
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  1         3.  This paragraph is repealed effective October 2,

  2  2002, and must be reviewed by the Legislature before that date

  3  in accordance with s. 119.15, the Open Government Sunset

  4  Review Act of 1995.

  5         Section 2.  The Legislature finds it is a public

  6  necessity that medical history records, bank account numbers,

  7  credit card numbers, telephone numbers, and information

  8  related to health or property insurance furnished to a housing

  9  assistance program be held confidential and exempt from public

10  records requirements because revealing such information could

11  create the opportunity for fraud and is an unnecessary

12  intrusion into the personal affairs of the program

13  participants.

14         Section 3.  This act shall take effect July 1, 1998.

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      certain records furnished pursuant to certain housing
19    assistance programs.

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