Florida Senate - 2013                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1696
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  04/09/2013           .                                
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       The Committee on Governmental Oversight and Accountability
       (Benacquisto) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment to Amendment (681624) (with title
    2  amendment)
    3  
    4         Between lines 50 and 51
    5  insert:
    6         Section 2. Section 119.12, Florida Statutes, is amended to
    7  read:
    8         119.12 Attorney Attorney’s fees.—If a civil action is filed
    9  against an agency to enforce the provisions of this chapter and
   10  if the court determines that such agency unlawfully refused to
   11  permit a public record to be inspected or copied, the court
   12  shall assess and award, against the agency responsible, the
   13  reasonable costs of enforcement. The reasonable costs of
   14  enforcement include, but are not limited to, including
   15  reasonable attorney attorneys’ fees, including those reasonable
   16  attorney fees incurred in litigating entitlement to, and the
   17  determination or quantification of, attorney fees for the
   18  underlying matter.
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   21         And the title is amended as follows:
   22         Delete lines 951 - 956
   23  and insert:
   24         An act relating to governmental procedures and legal
   25         proceedings; amending s. 57.111, F.S.; revising the
   26         definition of the term “small business party”;
   27         providing conditions under which a proceeding is not
   28         substantially justified for purposes of an award under
   29         the Florida Equal Access to Justice Act; amending s.
   30         119.12, F.S.; specifying what constitutes reasonable
   31         costs of enforcement in a civil action against an
   32         agency to enforce ch. 119, F.S.; amending s. 120.52,
   33         F.S.; defining the