Florida Senate - 2016                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1278
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       The Committee on Judiciary (Ring) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment 
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    3         Delete lines 82 - 107
    4  and insert:
    5         (d) The petition and any order entered by the court under
    6  this section are confidential and exempt from s. 119.07(1) and
    7  s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution. A petition made
    8  confidential and exempt by this paragraph shall be disclosed by
    9  the clerk of the court, upon request, to a judge of the circuit,
   10  the respondent, a guardian, a health care surrogate or proxy, an
   11  attorney of record for the respondent, and to any other person
   12  as directed by order of the court. The clerk of the court may
   13  not post any personal identifying information on the docket or
   14  in publicly accessible files. This paragraph is subject to the
   15  Open Government Sunset Review Act in accordance with s. 119.15
   16  and shall stand repealed on October 2, 2021, unless reviewed and
   17  saved from repeal through reenactment by the Legislature.
   18         Section 3. Subsection (3) of section 394.467, Florida
   19  Statutes, is amended to read:
   20         394.467 Involuntary inpatient placement.—
   21         (3) PETITION FOR INVOLUNTARY INPATIENT PLACEMENT.—
   22         (a) The administrator of the facility shall file a petition
   23  for involuntary inpatient placement in the court in the county
   24  where the patient is located. Upon filing, the clerk of the
   25  court shall provide copies to the department, the patient, the
   26  patient’s guardian or representative, and the state attorney and
   27  public defender of the judicial circuit in which the patient is
   28  located. No fee shall be charged for the filing of a petition
   29  under this subsection.
   30         (b) The petition and any order entered by the court under
   31  this section are
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