Florida Senate - 2015                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 144
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  01/06/2015           .                                
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       The Committee on Health Policy (Bean) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 225 - 276
    4  and insert:
    5         n. The home addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth,
    6  and photographs of current or former impaired practitioner
    7  consultants who are retained by an agency or current or former
    8  employees of an impaired practitioner consultant whose duties
    9  result in a determination of a person’s skill and safety to
   10  practice a licensed profession; the names, home addresses,
   11  telephone numbers, dates of birth, and places of employment of
   12  the spouses and children of such consultants or their employees;
   13  and the names and locations of schools and day care facilities
   14  attended by the children of such consultants or employees are
   15  exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State
   16  Constitution if a consultant or employee has made reasonable
   17  efforts to protect such information from being accessible
   18  through other means available to the public. This sub
   19  subparagraph is subject to the Open Government Sunset Review Act
   20  in accordance with s. 119.15 and shall stand repealed on October
   21  2, 2020, unless reviewed and saved from repeal through
   22  reenactment by the Legislature.
   23         3. An agency that is the custodian of the information
   24  specified in subparagraph 2. and that is not the employer of the
   25  officer, employee, justice, judge, or other person specified in
   26  subparagraph 2. shall maintain the exempt status of that
   27  information only if the officer, employee, justice, judge, other
   28  person, or employing agency of the designated employee submits a
   29  written request for maintenance of the exemption to the
   30  custodial agency.
   31         4. The exemptions in this paragraph apply to information
   32  held by an agency before, on, or after the effective date of the
   33  exemption.
   34         5. Except as otherwise expressly provided in this
   35  paragraph, this paragraph is subject to the Open Government
   36  Sunset Review Act in accordance with s. 119.15, and shall stand
   37  repealed on October 2, 2017, unless reviewed and saved from
   38  repeal through reenactment by the Legislature.
   39         Section 2. The Legislature finds that it is a public
   40  necessity that the home addresses, telephone numbers, dates of
   41  birth, and photographs of current or former impaired
   42  practitioner consultants who are retained by an agency or
   43  current or former employees of an impaired practitioner
   44  consultant whose duties result in a determination of a person’s
   45  skill and safety to practice a licensed profession; that the
   46  names, home addresses, telephone numbers, and places of
   47  employment of the spouses and children of such consultants and
   48  their employees; and that the names and locations of schools and
   49  day care facilities attended by the children of such consultant
   50  and employees be exempt from public records requirements if the
   51  consultant or employee has made reasonable efforts to protect
   52  such information from being accessible through other means
   53  available to the public. An impaired practitioner consultant
   54  assists the state and its regulatory boards in implementing an
   55  impaired practitioner treatment program. The consultant provides
   56  the necessary resources to evaluate; treat; and monitor program
   57  compliance of licensees, applicants for licensure, and students
   58  enrolled in prelicensure education programs who could be
   59  impaired and, as a result, unable to practice with reasonable
   60  skill and safety to the public. A person who is referred to the
   61  program, but who, in the opinion of the consultant, based on
   62  treatment and compliance monitoring information, fails to
   63  successfully complete its requirements or is an immediate,
   64  serious threat to public safety is at risk of failing to obtain
   65  or losing the license that is necessary to engage in his or her
   66  chosen profession. In 2013, a program participant with a history
   67  of alcohol abuse and cocaine dependence traveled 250 miles
   68  across the state to confront his compliance monitor in the
   69  driveway of her home. Another program participant threatened a
   70  bomb attack on a program office and physical harm to its
   71  employees. As a result of these incidents and other telephone
   72  threats, the Legislature finds that release of identifying and
   73  location information could place an impaired practitioner
   74  consultant or an employee of a consultant whose duties result in
   75  a determination of a person’s skill and safety to practice a
   76  licensed profession, or the spouses and children of such
   77  consultants or their employees in danger of being physically or
   78  emotionally harmed or stalked by a person who has a hostile
   79  reaction to a recommendation, report, or conclusion provided by
   80  a consultant or an employee of a consultant in the determination
   81  of whether the practitioner is impaired. The Legislature further
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   83  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   84  And the title is amended as follows:
   85         Delete lines 5 - 8
   86  and insert:
   87         location information of current or former impaired
   88         practitioner consultants who are retained by an agency
   89         or current or former employees of an impaired
   90         practitioner consultant whose duties result in a
   91         determination of a person’s skill and safety to
   92         practice a licensed profession and the spouses and
   93         children of such consultants or