Florida Senate - 2009              PROPOSED COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
       Bill No. SB 748
       
       
       
       
       
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       Proposed Committee Substitute by the Committee on Governmental
       Oversight and Accountability
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to a review under the Open Government
    3         Sunset Review Act regarding councils on children’s
    4         services and juvenile welfare boards; amending s.
    5         125.901, F.S., which provides an exemption from
    6         public-records requirements for personal identifying
    7         information of a child, or the parent or guardian of
    8         the child, held by a council on children’s services,
    9         juvenile welfare board, or other similar entity, or
   10         held by a service provider or researcher under
   11         contract with such entity; making editorial changes;
   12         removing the scheduled repeal of the exemption;
   13         providing an effective date.
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   15  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   17         Section 1. Subsection (11) of section 125.901, Florida
   18  Statutes, is amended to read:
   19         125.901 Children’s services; independent special district;
   20  council; powers, duties, and functions; public-records
   21  exemption.—
   22         (11)(a) Personal identifying information of a child or the
   23  child’s parent or guardian of the child, held by a council on
   24  children’s services service council, juvenile welfare board, or
   25  other similar entity created under this section or by special
   26  law, or held by a service provider or researcher under contract
   27  with such entity, is exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art.
   28  I of the State Constitution. This exemption applies to such
   29  personal identifying information held before, on, before, or
   30  after the effective date of this exemption.
   31         (b) This subsection is subject to the Open Government
   32  Sunset Review Act in accordance with s. 119.15, and shall stand
   33  repealed on October 2, 2009, unless reviewed and saved from
   34  repeal through reenactment by the Legislature.
   35         Section 2. This act shall take effect October 1, 2009.