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                                                   HOUSE AMENDMENT

                                               Bill No. CS/HB 1115

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11  Representative(s) Lynn offered the following:

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13         Amendment (with title amendment) 

14         On page 6, between lines 30 and 31,

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17         Section 6.  Section 257.261, Florida Statutes, is

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19         257.261  Library registration and circulation

20  records.--All registration and circulation records of every

21  public library, except statistical reports of registration and

22  circulation, are confidential and exempt from the provisions

23  of s. 119.07(1) and from s. 24(a) of Art. I of the State

24  Constitution. Except in accordance with proper judicial order,

25  a person may not make known in any manner any information

26  contained in such records, except as provided in this section.

27  As used in this section, the term "registration records"

28  includes any information that a library requires a patron to

29  provide in order to become eligible to borrow books and other

30  materials, and the term "circulation records" includes all

31  information that identifies the patrons who borrow particular

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  1  books and other materials. This section does not prohibit any

  2  library, or any business operating jointly with the library,

  3  from disclosing information to the parent or guardian of a

  4  public library patron under the age of 16 municipal or county

  5  law enforcement officials, or to judicial officials, for the

  6  purpose of collecting fines or recovering overdue books,

  7  documents, films, or other items or materials owned or

  8  otherwise belonging to the library. This section does not

  9  prohibit any library, or any business operating jointly with

10  the library, from disclosing information to municipal or

11  county law enforcement officials or to judicial officials or

12  to any business, for the purpose of collecting fines or

13  recovering overdue books, documents, films, or other items or

14  materials owned or otherwise belonging to the library;

15  provided that,. in the case of a public library patron under

16  the age of 16, the a public library or business entity may

17  only release confidential information relating to the parent

18  or guardian of the person under 16. Any person who violates

19  this section commits is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second

20  degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.

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26  And the title is amended as follows:

27         On page 1, line 16, following the semicolon

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30         amending s. 257.261, F.S.; revising provisions

31         relating to confidentiality of public library

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  1         registration and circulation records to

  2         authorize disclosure of information to the

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  5         recovering overdue books or other materials;

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