HOUSE AMENDMENT Bill No. HB 49
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12	Representative Garcia offered the following:
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14	Amendment (with title amendment)
15	Remove lines 180-213, and insert:
16	Section 6. Section 257.261, Florida Statutes, is amended
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18	257.261 Library registration and circulation records.--
19	(1)All registration and circulation records of every
20	public library, except statistical reports of registration and
21	circulation, are confidential and exempt from the provisions of
22	s. 119.07(1) and from s. 24(a) of Art. I of the State
23	Constitution. Except in accordance with proper judicial order, a
24	person may not make known in any manner any information
25	contained in such records, except as provided in this section.
26	(2)As used in this section, the term "registration
27	records" includes any information that a library requires a
28	patron to provide in order to become eligible to borrow books
29	and other materials, and the term "circulation records" includes
30	all information that identifies the patrons who borrow
31	particular books and other materials.
32	(3)(a) Except in accordance with a proper judicial order,
33	a person may not make known in any manner any information
34	contained in records made confidential and exempt by this
35	section, except as otherwise provided in this section.
36	(b) AThis section does not prohibit anylibrary, or any
37	business operating jointly with the library may, only for the
38	purpose of collecting fines or recovering overdue books,
39	documents, films, or other items or materials owned or otherwise
40	belonging to the library, disclose, from disclosing information
41	made confidential and exempt by this section to the following:
42	1. The library patron named in the records;
43	2. In the case of a library patron less than 16 years of
44	age, the parent or guardian of that patron named in the records;
45	3. Any entity that collects fines on behalf of a library,
46	unless the patron is less than 16 years of age, in which case
47	only information identifying the patron's parent or guardian may
48	be released;
49	4. Municipal or county law enforcement officials, unless
50	the patron is 16 years of age, in which case only information
51	identifying the patron's parent or guardian may be released; or
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53	5. Judicial officials., for the purpose of recovering
54	overdue books, documents, films, or other items or materials
55	owned or otherwise belonging to the library. This section does
56	not prohibit any library, or any business operating jointly with
57	the library, from disclosing information to municipal or county
58	law enforcement officials or to judicial officials or to any
59	business for the purpose of collecting fines or overdue books,
60	documents, films, or other items or materials. In the case of a
61	public library patron under the age of 16, a public library may
62	only release confidential information relating to the parent or
63	guardian of the person under 16.
64	(4) Any person who violates this section commitsis guilty
65	ofa misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable as provided in
66	s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.
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70	Remove line(s) 14-19, and insert:
71	construction grants; amending s. 257.261, F.S.; revising
72	provisions relating to confidentiality of public library
73	registration and circulation records to authorize
74	disclosure of information to the parent or guardian of a
75	library patron under age 16, for the purpose of collecting
76	fines or recovering overdue books or other materials;