HOUSE AMENDMENT

                                        Bill No. HB 2101, 1st Eng.

    Amendment No.     (for drafter's use only)

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11  Representative(s) Fasano offered the following:

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13         Amendment 

14         On page 2, line 11, through page 3, line 6,

15  remove from the bill:  all of said lines

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17  and insert in lieu thereof:

18         (dd)  The home addresses and home telephone numbers of

19  health care practitioners, as defined in s. 455.501(4),

20  working in or with any type of correctional facility,

21  including any prison or jail, or in any forensic mental health

22  facility, who have a reasonable belief that release of the

23  information may be used to threaten, intimidate, harass,

24  inflict violence upon, or defraud the employee, are exempt

25  from the provisions of subsection (1) and s.24(a).Art.I of the

26  State Constitution. The employing and licensing agencies shall

27  withhold the home address and home telephone number from

28  public records requirements only if the health care

29  practitioner submits a written request to the agencies.

30         Section 2.  The Legislature finds that it is a public

31  necessity that the home addresses and home telephone numbers

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                                                   HOUSE AMENDMENT

                                        Bill No. HB 2101, 1st Eng.

    Amendment No.     (for drafter's use only)





 1  of health care practitioners who work in or with any type of

 2  correctional facility, including any prison or jail, or in any

 3  forensic mental health facility and who have a reasonable

 4  belief that release of the information may be used to

 5  threaten, stalk, intimidate, harass, inflict violence upon, or

 6  defraud the employee or a member of the employee's family, be

 7  held exempt from public records requirements because revealing

 8  such information may pose an unnecessary risk to the safety

 9  and well-being of such health care practitioners in their own

10  homes from inmates or clients of such facilities. The

11  disclosure of such information may also deter health care

12  practitioners from seeking to work or working in such

13  facilities, which would be contrary to the state's interest in

14  ensuring the availability of health care service in such

15  facilities.

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