Florida Senate - 2020 CS for SB 162 By the Committee on Rules; and Senator Perry 595-03945-20 2020162c1 1 A bill to be entitled 2 An act relating to public records; amending s. 119.07, 3 F.S.; prohibiting an agency that receives a request to 4 inspect or copy a record from responding to such 5 request by filing an action for declaratory relief 6 against the requester; providing an effective date. 7 8 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 9 10 Section 1. Paragraph (j) is added to subsection (1) of 11 section 119.07, Florida Statutes, to read: 12 119.07 Inspection and copying of records; photographing 13 public records; fees; exemptions.— 14 (1) 15 (j) After receiving a request to inspect or copy a record, 16 an agency may not respond to that request by filing an action 17 for declaratory relief against the requester to determine the 18 status of those records as exempt or confidential from this 19 chapter. 20 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2020.