Florida Senate - 2015                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 7070
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  04/09/2015           .                                
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       The Committee on Judiciary (Bean) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 1439 - 1461
    4  and insert:
    5         (c) A petition for involuntary inpatient placement is filed
    6  and the records are needed by the state attorney to evaluate the
    7  allegations set forth in the petition or to prosecute the
    8  petition. However, the state attorney may not use clinical
    9  records obtained under this part for the purpose of criminal
   10  investigation or prosecution, or for any other purpose not
   11  authorized by this part.
   12         (d)(c) The court orders such release. In determining
   13  whether there is good cause for disclosure, the court shall
   14  weigh the need for the information to be disclosed against the
   15  possible harm of disclosure to the individual person to whom
   16  such information pertains.
   17         (e)(d) The individual patient is committed to, or is to be
   18  returned to, the Department of Corrections from the Department
   19  of Children and Families, and the Department of Corrections
   20  requests such records. These records shall be furnished without
   21  charge to the Department of Corrections.
   22         (3) Information from the clinical record may be released in
   23  the following circumstances:
   24         (a) When a patient has declared an intention to harm other
   25  persons. When such declaration has been made, the administrator
   26  may authorize the release of sufficient information to provide
   27  adequate warning to law enforcement agencies and to the person
   28  threatened with harm by the
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   30  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   31  And the title is amended as follows:
   32         Between lines 49 and 50
   33  insert:
   34         providing for the release of information from the
   35         clinical record to law enforcement agencies under
   36         certain circumstances;