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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. CS for SB 2430

    Amendment No. ___   Barcode 720232

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11  Senator Diaz de la Portilla moved the following amendment:

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13         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 

14         On page 6, line 18, through page 9, line 24, delete

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18         Section 4.  Subsection (1) of section 443.1715, Florida

19  Statutes, is amended to read:

20         443.1715  Disclosure of information; confidentiality.--

21         (1)  RECORDS AND REPORTS.--Information revealing the

22  employing unit's or individual's identity obtained from the

23  employing unit or from any individual pursuant to the

24  administration of this chapter, and any determination

25  revealing such information, must, except to the extent

26  necessary for the proper presentation of a claim or upon

27  written authorization of the claimant who has a workers'

28  compensation claim pending, must be held confidential and

29  exempt from the provisions of s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art.

30  I of the State Constitution. Such information may be made

31  available only to public employees in the performance of their

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  1  public duties, including employees of the Department of

  2  Education in obtaining information for the Florida Education

  3  and Training Placement Information Program and the Office of

  4  Tourism, Trade, and Economic Development in its administration

  5  of the qualified defense contractor tax refund program

  6  authorized by s. 288.1045 and the qualified target industry

  7  tax refund program authorized by s. 288.106. Except as

  8  otherwise provided by law, public employees receiving such

  9  information must retain the confidentiality of such

10  information. Any claimant, or the claimant's legal

11  representative, at a hearing before an appeals referee or the

12  commission shall be supplied with information from such

13  records to the extent necessary for the proper presentation of

14  her or his claim. Any employee or member of the commission or

15  any employee of the division, or any other person receiving

16  confidential information, who violates any provision of this

17  subsection commits a misdemeanor of the second degree,

18  punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083. However,

19  the division may furnish to any employer copies of any report

20  previously submitted by such employer, upon the request of

21  such employer, and may furnish to any claimant copies of any

22  report previously submitted by such claimant, upon the request

23  of such claimant, and the division is authorized to charge

24  therefor such reasonable fee as the division may by rule

25  prescribe not to exceed the actual reasonable cost of the

26  preparation of such copies. Fees received by the division for

27  copies as provided in this subsection must be deposited to the

28  credit of the Employment Security Administration Trust Fund.

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  2  And the title is amended as follows:

  3         On page 1, lines 19 and 20, delete those lines

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  6         s. 443.1715, F.S.; adding

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