The Florida Senate

627.3111  Public records exemption.--All bank account numbers and debit, charge, and credit card numbers, and all other personal financial and health information of a consumer held by the Department of Insurance or its service providers or agents, relating to a consumer's complaint or inquiry regarding a matter or activity regulated under the Florida Insurance Code, are confidential and exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution. For the purpose of this section, the term "consumer" includes but is not limited to a prospective purchaser, purchaser, or beneficiary of, or applicant for, any product or service regulated under the Florida Insurance Code, and a family member or dependent of a consumer, a subscriber under a group policy, or a policyholder. This information shall be redacted from records that contain nonexempt information prior to disclosure. This exemption applies to information made confidential and exempt by this section held by the Department of Insurance or its service providers or agents before, on, or after the effective date of this exemption. Such confidential and exempt information may be disclosed to another governmental entity, if disclosure is necessary for the receiving entity to perform its duties and responsibilities, and may be disclosed to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. The receiving governmental entity and the association must maintain the confidential and exempt status of such information. The information made confidential and exempt by this section may be used in a criminal, civil, or administrative proceeding so long as the confidential and exempt status of such information is maintained. This exemption does not include the name and address of an inquirer or complainant to the department or the name of an insurer or other regulated entity which is the subject of the inquiry ¹or complaint. This section is subject to the Open Government Sunset Review Act of 1995 in accordance with s. 119.15 and shall stand repealed on October 2, 2007, unless reviewed and saved from repeal through reenactment by the Legislature.

History.--s. 1, ch. 2002-175.

¹Note.--The word "or" was substituted for the word "of" by the editors.