Florida Senate - 2013                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1042
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       Senator Abruzzo moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Criminal justice commissions; public meetings
    6  exemption.—
    7         (1) As used in this section, the term:
    8         (a) “Active” has the same meaning as provided in s.
    9  119.011, Florida Statutes.
   10         (b) “Criminal intelligence information” has the same
   11  meaning as provided in s. 119.011, Florida Statutes.
   12         (c) “Criminal investigative information” has the same
   13  meaning as provided in s. 119.011, Florida Statutes.
   14         (d) “Duly constituted criminal justice commission” or
   15  “commission” means an advisory commission created by municipal
   16  or county ordinance whose membership is comprised of private and
   17  public sector persons and whose purpose is to examine local
   18  criminal justice issues.
   19         (2) That portion of a meeting of a duly constituted
   20  criminal justice commission at which members of the commission
   21  discuss active criminal intelligence information or active
   22  criminal investigative information that is currently being
   23  considered by, or which may foreseeably come before, the
   24  commission is exempt from s. 286.011, Florida Statutes, and s.
   25  24(b), Art. I of the State Constitution, provided that at any
   26  public meeting of the commission at which such matter is being
   27  considered, the commission members publicly disclose the fact
   28  that the matter has been discussed.
   29         (3) This section is subject to the Open Government Sunset
   30  Review Act in accordance with s. 119.15, Florida Statutes, and
   31  shall stand repealed on October 2, 2018, unless reviewed and
   32  saved from repeal through reenactment by the Legislature.
   33         Section 2. The Legislature finds that it is a public
   34  necessity that the portion of a meeting of a duly constituted
   35  criminal justice commission at which members of the commission
   36  discuss active criminal intelligence information or active
   37  criminal investigative information currently being considered
   38  by, or which may foreseeably come before, the commission be made
   39  exempt from public meeting requirements. If the meetings at
   40  which exempt information is discussed were open to the public,
   41  the purpose of the exemption from public records requirements
   42  found in chapter 119, Florida Statutes, would be defeated. The
   43  members of a duly constituted criminal justice commission must
   44  be able to hear and discuss exempt information freely in order
   45  to make sound recommendations regarding strategies and
   46  activities that are best suited to protect the welfare of the
   47  people of this state. The ability to conduct meetings at which
   48  members can freely discuss and fully understand the details of
   49  active criminal intelligence information and active criminal
   50  investigative information is critical to the ability of a duly
   51  constituted criminal justice commission to operate effectively.
   52         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2013.
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   54  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   55         And the title is amended as follows:
   56         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   57  and insert:
   58                        A bill to be entitled                      
   59         An act relating to public meetings; providing
   60         definitions; providing an exemption from public
   61         meeting requirements for that portion of a meeting of
   62         a duly constituted criminal justice commission at
   63         which specified members of the commission discuss
   64         active criminal intelligence information or active
   65         criminal investigative information currently being
   66         considered by, or which may foreseeably come before,
   67         the commission; providing for future review and repeal
   68         of the exemption; providing a statement of public
   69         necessity; providing an effective date.