HOUSE AMENDMENT
Bill No. HB 599 Barcode 550895
Amendment No. ___ (for drafter's use only)
CHAMBER ACTION
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11 The Committee on State Administration offered the following:
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13 Amendment (with title amendment)
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17 and insert in lieu thereof: Florida Statutes, and shall stand
18 repealed on October 2, 2006, unless reviewed and saved from
19 repeal through reenactment by the Legislature.
20 Section 2. The Legislature finds that it is a public
21 necessity that all identifying information concerning
22 applicants for and recipients of child support services which
23 is in the possession of any non-Title IV-D county child
24 support enforcement agency be held confidential and exempt.
25 The Legislature recognizes that all persons served by a
26 non-Title IV-D county child support enforcement agency are
27 eligible to receive services from the Department of Revenue,
28 the state's Title IV-D agency. The Legislature further
29 recognizes that information concerning applicants for and
30 recipients of child support services who are served by a
31 non-Title IV-D county child support enforcement agency would
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1 otherwise be confidential and exempt from disclosure pursuant
2 to section 409.2579, Florida Statutes, if served by the
3 Department of Revenue. Therefore, because provision of child
4 support services by a non-Title IV-D county child support
5 enforcement agency provides a useful and appropriate
6 alternative to the child support services provided by the
7 state, the Legislature finds that persons served by a
8 non-Title IV county child support enforcement agency should be
9 entitled to similar disclosure protections afforded to persons
10 receiving child support services from the state. Additionally,
11 the Legislature finds that many of the child support
12 enforcement cases handled by a non-Title IV-D county child
13 support enforcement agency are also domestic violence cases.
14 In such cases, agency clients have been subjected to domestic
15 violence or abuse and fear for their lives and those of their
16 minor children. The Legislature further finds that federal and
17 state law currently prohibit the disclosure of information
18 concerning clients served by the Title IV-D cases when a
19 protective order has been issued or the Title IV-D agency has
20 reason to believe that disclosure of information may result in
21 physical or emotional harm to the client or child, and the
22 Legislature wishes to extend similar protections to the
23 clients of non-Title IV-D county child support enforcement
24 agencies. Therefore, the Legislature determines that any
25 benefit that could occur from public disclosure of the
26 information concerning applicants for or recipients of child
27 support services from a non-Title IV-D county child support
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31 And the title is amended as follows:
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