Florida Senate - 2014                                     SB 370
       
       
        
       By Senator Altman
       
       
       
       
       
       16-00224-14                                            2014370__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to public records and public meetings
    3         exemptions; amending s. 383.412, F.S.; eliminating
    4         requirements that the closed portion of a meeting of
    5         the State Child Abuse Death Review Committee or a
    6         local committee at which specified identifying
    7         information is discussed be recorded, and that no
    8         portion of such meeting be off the record; providing
    9         an effective date.
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   11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   13         Section 1. Subsection (2) of section 383.412, Florida
   14  Statutes, is reenacted, and subsection (3) of that section is
   15  amended, to read:
   16         383.412 Public records and public meetings exemptions.—
   17         (2)(a) Any information that reveals the identity of the
   18  surviving siblings, family members, or others living in the home
   19  of a deceased child who is the subject of review by and which
   20  information is held by the State Child Abuse Death Review
   21  Committee or a local committee is confidential and exempt from
   22  s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution.
   23         (b) Information made confidential or exempt from s.
   24  119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution that is
   25  obtained by the State Child Abuse Death Review Committee or a
   26  local committee shall retain its confidential or exempt status.
   27         (3)(a) Portions of meetings of the State Child Abuse Death
   28  Review Committee or a local committee at which information made
   29  confidential and exempt pursuant to subsection (2) is discussed
   30  are exempt from s. 286.011 and s. 24(b), Art. I of the State
   31  Constitution. The closed portion of a meeting must be recorded,
   32  and no portion of the closed meeting may be off the record. The
   33  recording shall be maintained by the State Child Abuse Death
   34  Review Committee or a local committee.
   35         (b) The recording of a closed portion of a meeting is
   36  exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State
   37  Constitution.
   38         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2014.