Florida Senate - 2025                                    SB 7004
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Community Affairs
       
       
       
       
       
       578-01999-25                                          20257004__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to a review under the Open Government
    3         Sunset Review Act; amending s. 119.071, F.S., which
    4         provides an exemption from public records requirements
    5         for property photographs and personal identifying
    6         information of applicants for or participants in
    7         certain federal, state, or local housing assistance
    8         programs; deleting 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 (f) of subsection (5) of section
   14  119.071, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   15         119.071 General exemptions from inspection or copying of
   16  public records.—
   17         (5) OTHER PERSONAL INFORMATION.—
   18         (f)1. The following information held by the Department of
   19  Commerce, the Florida Housing Finance Corporation, a county, a
   20  municipality, or a local housing finance agency is confidential
   21  and exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State
   22  Constitution:
   23         a. Medical history records and information related to
   24  health or property insurance provided by an applicant for or a
   25  participant in a federal, state, or local housing assistance
   26  program.
   27         b. Property photographs and personal identifying
   28  information of an applicant for or a participant in a federal,
   29  state, or local housing assistance program for the purpose of
   30  disaster recovery assistance for a presidentially declared
   31  disaster.
   32         2. Governmental entities or their agents shall have access
   33  to such confidential and exempt records and information for the
   34  purpose of auditing federal, state, or local housing programs or
   35  housing assistance programs.
   36         3. Such confidential and exempt records and information may
   37  be used in any administrative or judicial proceeding, provided
   38  such records are kept confidential and exempt unless otherwise
   39  ordered by a court.
   40         4. Sub-subparagraph 1.b. is subject to the Open Government
   41  Sunset Review Act in accordance with s. 119.15 and shall stand
   42  repealed on October 2, 2025, unless reviewed and saved from
   43  repeal through reenactment by the Legislature.
   44         Section 2. This act shall take effect October 1, 2025.