Florida Senate - 2019                                    SB 7002
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Health Policy
       
       
       
       
       
       588-00835-19                                          20197002__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to a review under the Open Government
    3         Sunset Review Act; amending s. 381.82, F.S., relating
    4         to an exemption from the public records and meeting
    5         requirements for applications provided to the
    6         Alzheimer’s Disease Research Grant Advisory Board
    7         within the Department of Health and the review of such
    8         applications; removing the scheduled repeal of the
    9         exemption; providing 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. Paragraph (d) of subsection (3) of section
   14  381.82, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   15         381.82 Ed and Ethel Moore Alzheimer’s Disease Research
   16  Program.—
   17         (3) There is created within the Department of Health the
   18  Alzheimer’s Disease Research Grant Advisory Board.
   19         (d)1. Applications provided to the board for Alzheimer’s
   20  disease research grants under this section, and any records
   21  generated by the board relating to review of such applications,
   22  except final recommendations, are confidential and exempt from
   23  s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution.
   24         2. Those portions of a meeting of the board during which
   25  applications for Alzheimer’s disease research grants under this
   26  section are discussed are exempt from s. 286.011 and s. 24(b),
   27  Art. I of the State Constitution. The closed portion of a
   28  meeting must be recorded. The recording shall be maintained by
   29  the board and shall be subject to disclosure in accordance with
   30  subparagraph 3.
   31         3. Information that is held confidential and exempt under
   32  this paragraph may be disclosed with the express written consent
   33  of the individual to whom the information pertains or the
   34  individual’s legally authorized representative, or by court
   35  order upon a showing of good cause.
   36         4. This paragraph is subject to the Open Government Sunset
   37  Review Act in accordance with s. 119.15 and shall stand repealed
   38  on October 2, 2019, unless reviewed and saved from repeal
   39  through reenactment by the Legislature.
   40         Section 2. This act shall take effect October 1, 2019.