Senate Bill sb1848

    Florida Senate - 2007                                  SB 1848

    By the Committee on Banking and Insurance





    597-1862-07

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to a review under the Open

  3         Government Sunset Review Act; amending s.

  4         717.117, F.S.; revising the public-records

  5         exemption for information held by the

  6         Department of Financial Services which concerns

  7         insurance and financial accounts; saving the

  8         exemption from repeal under the Open Government

  9         Sunset Review Act; deleting provisions that

10         provide for the repeal of the exemption;

11         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.  Subsection (8) of section 717.117, Florida

16  Statutes, is amended to read:

17         717.117  Report of unclaimed property.--

18         (8)  Social security numbers and insurance policy

19  account numbers, investment account numbers, pension and

20  profit-sharing account numbers, patient account numbers,

21  utility account numbers, customer account numbers, and wage,

22  payroll, and salary account numbers financial account numbers

23  contained in reports required under this section, held by the

24  department, are confidential and exempt from s. 119.07(1) and

25  s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution. Notwithstanding

26  this exemption, social security numbers shall be released, for

27  the limited purpose of locating owners of abandoned or

28  unclaimed property, to an attorney, Florida-certified public

29  accountant, private investigator who is duly licensed in this

30  state, or a private investigative agency licensed under

31  chapter 493 and registered with the department under this

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    Florida Senate - 2007                                  SB 1848
    597-1862-07




 1  chapter.  This exemption applies to social security numbers

 2  and insurance policy account numbers, investment account

 3  numbers, pension and profit-sharing account numbers, patient

 4  account numbers, utility account numbers, customer account

 5  numbers, and wage, payroll, and salary account numbers

 6  financial account numbers held by the department before, on,

 7  or after the effective date of this exemption. This subsection

 8  is subject to the Open Government Sunset Review Act of 1995 in

 9  accordance with s. 119.15, and shall stand repealed October 2,

10  2007, unless reviewed and saved from repeal through

11  reenactment by the Legislature.

12         Section 2.  This act shall take effect October 1, 2007.

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15                          SENATE SUMMARY

16    Revises a public-records exemption for information held
      by the Department of Financial Services which concerns
17    insurance and financial accounts. Removes the repeal of
      the exemption which is scheduled to occur on October 2,
18    2007, under the Open Government Sunset Review Act.

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