Florida Senate - 2012                                     SB 176
       
       
       
       By Senator Bullard
       
       
       
       
       39-00263-12                                            2012176__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to consumer protection; amending s.
    3         501.005, F.S.; requiring the Department of Corrections
    4         to provide each inmate in a correctional facility the
    5         opportunity to place a security freeze on his or her
    6         consumer report; requiring the department, at the
    7         request of the inmate, to provide the appropriate
    8         forms to the inmate to initiate the security freeze
    9         process; requiring that the inmate pay all fees and
   10         expenses incurred in the application for a security
   11         freeze; 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 (18) is added to section 501.005,
   16  Florida Statutes, to read:
   17         501.005 Consumer report security freeze.—
   18         (18) The Department of Corrections shall provide each
   19  inmate in a correctional facility the opportunity to place a
   20  security freeze on his or her consumer report pursuant to this
   21  section. The department shall, at the request of the inmate,
   22  provide the appropriate forms to the inmate to initiate the
   23  security freeze process. All fees and expenses incurred in the
   24  application for a security freeze shall be paid by the inmate.
   25         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2012.