House Bill hb0021Ec1

    Florida House of Representatives - 2002             CS/HB 21-E

        By the Committee on State Administration and
    Representative Paul





  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to maintenance of official

  3         records; providing a process for removal from

  4         official records of specified armed forces

  5         military-separation forms upon the request of a

  6         veteran of the United States Armed Forces or a

  7         specified representative thereof; providing

  8         requirements with respect thereto; requiring

  9         the county recorder to provide specified

10         written notice; providing an effective date.

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12  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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14         Section 1.  Any veteran of the United States Armed

15  Forces or his or her widow or widower, or the attorney,

16  personal representative, executor, or court-appointed guardian

17  of a veteran of the United States Armed Forces at the request

18  of and on behalf of the veteran, has the right to request that

19  a county recorder remove from the official records of the

20  county any of the following forms recorded before, on, or

21  after the effective date of this act: DD-214; DD-215; WD AGO

22  53; WD AGO 55; WD AGO 53-55; NAVMC 78-PD; and NAVPERS 553. The

23  request for removal must specify the identification page

24  number of the form to be removed. The request shall be made in

25  person and with appropriate identification to allow

26  determination of the identity of the veteran making the

27  request or the identity of the person making the request on

28  behalf of a veteran as authorized under this act. The county

29  recorder has no duty to make any inquiries beyond those

30  required to verify the identity of the veteran requesting

31  removal or the person requesting removal on behalf of a

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    Florida House of Representatives - 2002             CS/HB 21-E

    688-208-02E






 1  veteran. No fee shall be charged for the removal. When the

 2  request for removal is made, the county recorder shall provide

 3  a written notice to the requesting party that the removal of

 4  the document from the official records is permanent and no

 5  further record of the document will exist in the official

 6  records of the county.

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

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