Florida Senate - 2015                                    SB 7034
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Ethics and Elections
       
       
       
       
       
       582-01885-15                                          20157034__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to a review under the Open Government
    3         Sunset Review Act; amending s. 97.0585, F.S., which
    4         provides a public records exemption for specified
    5         personal identifying information of stalking victims
    6         held by the Attorney General or contained in voter
    7         registration and voting records held by the supervisor
    8         of elections or the Department of State; saving the
    9         exemption from repeal under the Open Government Sunset
   10         Review Act; providing an effective date.
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   12  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   14         Section 1. Subsections (3) and (4) of section 97.0585,
   15  Florida Statutes, are republished, and subsection (5) of that
   16  section is amended, to read:
   17         97.0585 Public records exemption; information regarding
   18  voters and voter registration; confidentiality.—
   19         (3) The names, addresses, and telephone numbers of persons
   20  who are victims of stalking or aggravated stalking are exempt
   21  from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution
   22  in the same manner that the names, addresses, and telephone
   23  numbers of participants in the Address Confidentiality Program
   24  for Victims of Domestic Violence which are held by the Attorney
   25  General under s. 741.465 are exempt from disclosure, provided
   26  that the victim files a sworn statement of stalking with the
   27  Office of the Attorney General and otherwise complies with the
   28  procedures in ss. 741.401-741.409.
   29         (4) This section applies to information held by an agency
   30  before, on, or after the effective date of this exemption.
   31         (5) Subsection (3) is subject to the Open Government Sunset
   32  Review Act in accordance with s. 119.15 and shall stand repealed
   33  on October 2, 2015, unless reviewed and saved from repeal
   34  through reenactment by the Legislature.
   35         Section 2. This act shall take effect October 1, 2015.