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    Florida Senate - 2004                                   SB 464

    By the Committee on Health, Aging, and Long-Term Care





    317-360-04

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to a review under the Open

  3         Government Sunset Review Act; amending s.

  4         395.3025, F.S.; revising a public-records

  5         exemption for specified information concerning

  6         certain employees of hospitals, ambulatory

  7         surgical centers, and mobile surgical

  8         facilities; saving the exemption from repeal

  9         under the Open Government Sunset Review Act;

10         deleting provisions that provide for the repeal

11         of the exemption; providing an effective date.

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

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15         Section 1.  Subsections (10) and (11) of section

16  395.3025, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:

17         395.3025  Patient and personnel records; copies;

18  examination.--

19         (10)  The home addresses and, telephone numbers, social

20  security numbers, and photographs of employees of any licensed

21  facility who provide direct patient care or security services;

22  the home addresses, telephone numbers, social security

23  numbers, photographs, and places of employment of the spouses

24  and children of such persons; and the names and locations of

25  schools and day care facilities attended by the children of

26  such persons are confidential and exempt from s. 119.07(1) and

27  s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution. However, any state

28  or federal agency that is authorized to have access to such

29  information by any provision of law shall be granted such

30  access in the furtherance of its statutory duties,

31  notwithstanding the provisions of this subsection. This

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 1  subsection is subject to the Open Government Sunset Review Act

 2  of 1995 in accordance with s. 119.15, and shall stand repealed

 3  on October 2, 2004, unless reviewed and saved from repeal

 4  through reenactment by the Legislature.

 5         (11)  The home addresses and, telephone numbers, social

 6  security numbers, and photographs of employees of any licensed

 7  facility who have a reasonable belief that release of the

 8  information may be used to threaten, intimidate, harass,

 9  inflict violence upon, or defraud the employee or any member

10  of the employee's family; the home addresses, telephone

11  numbers, social security numbers, photographs, and places of

12  employment of the spouses and children of such persons; and

13  the names and locations of schools and day care facilities

14  attended by the children of such persons are confidential and

15  exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State

16  Constitution. However, any state or federal agency that is

17  authorized to have access to such information by any provision

18  of law shall be granted such access in the furtherance of its

19  statutory duties, notwithstanding the provisions of this

20  subsection. The licensed facility shall maintain the

21  confidentiality of the personal information only if the

22  employee submits a written request for confidentiality to the

23  licensed facility. This subsection is subject to the Open

24  Government Sunset Review Act of 1995 in accordance with s.

25  119.15, and shall stand repealed on October 2, 2004, unless

26  reviewed and saved from repeal through reenactment by the

27  Legislature.

28         Section 2.  This act shall take effect October 1, 2004.

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 3    Revises an exemption from the public records law for
      information that concerns employees of certain hospital
 4    facilities and the spouses and children of those
      employees. Removes the repeal of the exemption scheduled
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      Review Act.
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