Florida Senate - 2021                   (PROPOSED BILL) SPB 7036
       
       
        
       FOR CONSIDERATION By the Committee on Agriculture
       
       
       
       
       
       575-02230-21                                          20217036pb
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to a review under the Open Government
    3         Sunset Review Act; amending s. 570.077, F.S., which
    4         provides an exemption from public records requirements
    5         for criminal or civil intelligence or investigative
    6         information or any other information held by the
    7         Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services as
    8         part of an examination or investigation with another
    9         state or federal regulatory, administrative, or
   10         criminal justice agency; removing the scheduled repeal
   11         of the exemption; providing an effective date.
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   13  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   15         Section 1. Section 570.077, Florida Statutes, is amended to
   16  read:
   17         570.077 Confidentiality of intelligence or investigative
   18  information.—
   19         (1) Criminal or civil intelligence or investigative
   20  information or any other information held by the department as
   21  part of a joint or multiagency examination or investigation with
   22  another state or federal regulatory, administrative, or criminal
   23  justice agency which is confidential or exempt under the laws or
   24  regulations of that state or federal agency is confidential and
   25  exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State
   26  Constitution. The department may obtain, use, and release the
   27  information in accordance with the conditions imposed by the
   28  joint or multiagency agreement.
   29         (2) The department may release information that is made
   30  confidential and exempt under subsection (1):
   31         (a) In the furtherance of its official duties and
   32  responsibilities.
   33         (b) To another governmental agency in the furtherance of
   34  its official duties and responsibilities.
   35         (3) The public records exemption provided in subsection (1)
   36  does not apply to information held by the department as part of
   37  an independent examination or investigation conducted by the
   38  department.
   39         (4) This section is subject to the Open Government Sunset
   40  Review Act in accordance with s. 119.15 and shall stand repealed
   41  on October 2, 2021, unless reviewed and saved from repeal
   42  through reenactment by the Legislature.
   43         Section 2. This act shall take effect October 1, 2021.