HOUSE AMENDMENT Bill No. HB 325 CS
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12	Representative Garcia offered the following:
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14	Substitute Amendment for Amendment (91843) (with title
15	amendment)
16	Remove lines 73-106, and insert:
17	Section 2. Section 257.261, Florida Statutes, is amended
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19	257.261 Library registration and circulation records.--
20	(1)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 of
23	s. 119.07(1) and from s. 24(a) of Art. I of the State
24	Constitution. Except in accordance with proper judicial order, a
25	person may not make known in any manner any information
26	contained in such records, except as provided in this section.
27	(2)As used in this section, the term "registration
28	records" includes any information that a library requires a
29	patron to provide in order to become eligible to borrow books
30	and other materials, and the term "circulation records" includes
31	all information that identifies the patrons who borrow
32	particular books and other materials.
33	(3)(a) Except in accordance with a proper judicial order,
34	a person may not make known in any manner any information
35	contained in records made confidential and exempt by this
36	section, except as otherwise provided in this section.
37	(b) AThis section does not prohibit anylibrary, or any
38	business operating jointly with the library may, only for the
39	purpose of collecting fines or recovering overdue books,
40	documents, films, or other items or materials owned or otherwise
41	belonging to the library, disclose, from disclosing information
42	made confidential and exempt by this section to the following:
43	1. The library patron named in the records;
44	2. In the case of a library patron less than 16 years of
45	age, the parent or guardian of that patron named in the records;
46	3. Any entity that collects fines on behalf of a library,
47	unless the patron is less than 16 years of age, in which case
48	only information identifying the patron's parent or guardian may
49	be released;
50	4. Municipal or county law enforcement officials, unless
51	the patron is 16 years of age, in which case only information
52	identifying the patron's parent or guardian may be released; or
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54	5. Judicial officials., for the purpose of recovering
55	overdue books, documents, films, or other items or materials
56	owned or otherwise belonging to the library. This section does
57	not prohibit any library, or any business operating jointly with
58	the library, from disclosing information to municipal or county
59	law enforcement officials or to judicial officials or to any
60	business for the purpose of collecting fines or overdue books,
61	documents, films, or other items or materials. In the case of a
62	public library patron under the age of 16, a public library may
63	only release confidential information relating to the parent or
64	guardian of the person under 16.
65	(4) Any person who violates this section commitsis guilty
66	ofa misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable as provided in
67	s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.
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71	Remove line(s) 19-24, and insert:
72	appropriations; amending s. 257.261, F.S.; revising
73	provisions relating to confidentiality of public library
74	registration and circulation records to authorize
75	disclosure of information to the parent or guardian of a
76	library patron under age 16, for the purpose of collecting
77	fines or recovering overdue books or other materials;
78	providing for severability; providing an effective date.