HOUSE AMENDMENT

    hbd71-38                                  Bill No. CS/CS/HB 71

    Amendment No. 5 (for drafter's use only)

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11  Representative(s) Rojas offered the following:

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13         Amendment (with title amendment) 

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15  remove from the bill:  all of said lines

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17  and insert in lieu thereof:

18         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

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23  And the title is amended as follows:

24  remove from the title of the bill:  the entire title

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26  and insert in lieu thereof:

27                      A bill to be entitled

28         An act relating to a journalist's privilege;

29         creating s. 90.5015, F.S.; providing

30         definitions; providing to a professional

31         journalist the qualified privilege not to be a

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                                                   HOUSE AMENDMENT

    hbd71-38                                  Bill No. CS/CS/HB 71

    Amendment No. 5 (for drafter's use only)





 1         witness concerning, and not to disclose,

 2         certain information, including a source's

 3         identity, obtained while the journalist was

 4         actively gathering news; restricting

 5         applicability of the privilege to information

 6         or eye witness observations obtained within the

 7         normal scope of employment; providing that the

 8         privilege is not applicable to physical

 9         evidence of crime; providing for a hearing,

10         specified showing, and a court order for

11         disclosure of certain nonconfidential

12         information; prescribing guidelines with

13         respect to nonwaiver and construction of the

14         privilege; providing for severability;

15         providing an effective date.

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