Florida Senate - 2025                                    SB 1802
       
       
        
       By Senator Calatayud
       
       
       
       
       
       38-02066-25                                           20251802__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to public records; amending s.
    3         381.992, F.S.; providing a public records exemption
    4         for information held in the Parkinson’s Disease
    5         Research Program Registry which provides background
    6         information on individuals served by the Parkinson’s
    7         Disease Research Program; providing for future
    8         legislative review and repeal of the exemption;
    9         providing a statement of public necessity; providing a
   10         contingent 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. Subsection (7) is added to section 381.992,
   15  Florida Statutes, as created by SB 1800, 2025 Regular Session,
   16  to read:
   17         (7) PUBLIC RECORDS EXEMPTION.—Any information held in the
   18  Parkinson’s Disease Research Program Registry created under
   19  paragraph (2)(c) which provides background information on
   20  individuals served by the program, along with any related
   21  information that is derived or created from the information, is
   22  exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State
   23  Constitution, except that the information may be shared with
   24  another governmental entity in the furtherance of its duties and
   25  responsibilities without waiving such exemption. This subsection
   26  is subject to the Open Government Sunset Review Act in
   27  accordance with s. 119.15 and shall stand repealed on October 2,
   28  2030, unless reviewed and saved from repeal through reenactment
   29  by the Legislature.
   30         Section 2. The Legislature finds that it is a public
   31  necessity to make exempt from public records requirements
   32  information held in the Parkinson’s Disease Research Program
   33  Registry which would identify an individual. Such personal
   34  identifying health care information, if publicly available,
   35  could be used to invade the personal privacy of the individual
   36  identified in the registry. Furthermore, the disclosure of such
   37  information could hinder the effective and efficient
   38  administration of the registry. Finally, access to such
   39  information could be used to solicit or harass an individual
   40  identified in the registry. Thus, the Legislature finds that
   41  information held in the Parkinson’s Disease Research Program
   42  Registry which would identify an individual should be exempt
   43  from public records requirements.
   44         Section 3. This act shall take effect on the same date that
   45  SB 1800 or similar legislation takes effect, if such legislation
   46  is adopted in the same legislative session or an extension
   47  thereof and becomes a law.