HOUSE AMENDMENT
Bill No. HB 477
Amendment No. 1 (for drafter's use only)
CHAMBER ACTION
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11 The Council for Healthy Communities offered the following:
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13 Amendment (with title amendment)
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18 Section 3. (1) All information contained in the
19 Paternity Registry created by section 63.165, Florida
20 Statutes, is exempt from public disclosure pursuant to section
21 119.07(1), Florida Statutes, and Section 24(a) of Article I of
22 the State Constitution, except that certificates attesting to
23 the results of a search of the Paternity Registry pursuant to
24 section 63.165(8), Florida Statutes, may be disclosed as
25 provided in section 63.165(8), Florida Statutes. This section
26 is subject to the Open Government Sunset Review Act of 1995 in
27 accordance with section 119.15, Florida Statutes, and shall
28 stand repealed on October 2, 2006, unless reviewed and saved
29 from repeal through reenactment by the Legislature.
30 (2) This section shall take effect on the same date
31 that Committee Substitute for House Bill 415 or similar
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1 legislation takes effect if such legislation is adopted in the
2 same legislative session or an extension thereof and becomes
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4 Section 4. (1) The Legislature finds that it is a
5 public necessity to exempt from disclosure pursuant to section
6 119.07(1), Florida Statutes, and Section 24 of Article I of
7 the State Constitution all information contained in the
8 Paternity Registry created by section 63.165, Florida
9 Statutes. The Legislature finds that it is good public policy
10 to encourage putative fathers to grasp both the responsibility
11 and the opportunity to be made legally aware of petitions and
12 hearings to terminate their parental rights pending an
13 adoption. The Legislature also finds that by providing legal
14 notice to putative fathers, adoptions will be less likely to
15 be legally disrupted. The Legislature further finds that the
16 information required by the Paternity Registry reveals the
17 existence of intimate sexual relations. Disclosure of this
18 information would likely have a chilling effect on the
19 likelihood that putative fathers will register. Therefore, the
20 Legislature finds that any benefit that could occur from
21 public disclosure of the information in the Paternity Registry
22 is outweighed by the necessity to ensure the due process
23 rights of putative fathers.
24 (2) This section shall take effect on the same date
25 that Committee Substitute for House Bill 415 or similar
26 legislation takes effect if such legislation is adopted in the
27 same legislative session or an extension thereof and becomes
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29 Section 5. Except as otherwise provided herein, this
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Bill No. HB 477
Amendment No. 1 (for drafter's use only)
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2 And the title is amended as follows:
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4 remove from the title of the bill: all of said lines
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7 providing an exception; providing an exemption
8 from public records requirements for
9 information contained in the Paternity
10 Registry; providing for future legislative
11 review and repeal; providing findings of public
12 necessity; providing contingent effective
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