Florida Senate - 2025                   (PROPOSED BILL) SPB 7018
       
       
        
       FOR CONSIDERATION By the Committee on Health Policy
       
       
       
       
       
       588-02007-25                                          20257018pb
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to a review under the Open Government
    3         Sunset Review Act; amending s. 390.01118, F.S.,
    4         relating to an exemption from public records
    5         requirements for certain information that could
    6         identify a minor petitioning a court to waive parental
    7         consent requirements before terminating a pregnancy;
    8         deleting the scheduled repeal of the exemption;
    9         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. Section 390.01118, Florida Statutes, is amended
   14  to read:
   15         390.01118 Public records exemptions; minors seeking waiver
   16  of consent requirements.—Any information that can be used to
   17  identify a minor who is petitioning a circuit court for a
   18  judicial waiver, as provided in s. 390.01114, of the consent
   19  requirements under the Parental Notice of and Consent for
   20  Abortion Act is:
   21         (1) Confidential and exempt from s. 24(a), Art. I of the
   22  State Constitution, if held by a circuit court or an appellate
   23  court.
   24         (2) Confidential and exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a),
   25  Art. I of the State Constitution, if held by the office of
   26  criminal conflict and civil regional counsel or the Justice
   27  Administrative Commission.
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   29  This section is subject to the Open Government Sunset Review Act
   30  in accordance with s. 119.15 and shall stand repealed on October
   31  2, 2025, unless reviewed and saved from repeal through
   32  reenactment by the Legislature.
   33         Section 2. This act shall take effect October 1, 2025.