Florida Senate - 2025                   (PROPOSED BILL) SPB 7000
       
       
        
       FOR CONSIDERATION By the Committee on Environment and Natural
       Resources
       
       
       
       
       592-00478-25                                          20257000pb
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to a review under the Open Government
    3         Sunset Review Act; amending s. 379.1026, F.S., which
    4         provides an exemption from public records requirements
    5         for site-specific location information for endangered
    6         and threatened species; removing the scheduled repeal
    7         of the exemption; providing an effective date.
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    9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   11         Section 1. Section 379.1026, Florida Statutes, is amended
   12  to read:
   13         379.1026 Site-specific location information for endangered
   14  and threatened species; public records exemption.—The site
   15  specific location information held by an agency as defined in s.
   16  119.011 concerning an endangered species as defined in s.
   17  379.2291(3)(b), a threatened species as defined in s.
   18  379.2291(3)(c), or a species listed by a federal agency as
   19  endangered or threatened, is exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s.
   20  24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution. This exemption does not
   21  apply to the site-specific location information of animals held
   22  in captivity. This section is subject to the Open Government
   23  Sunset Review Act in accordance with s. 119.15 and shall stand
   24  repealed on October 2, 2025, unless reviewed and saved from
   25  repeal by the Legislature.
   26         Section 2. This act shall take effect October 1, 2025.