HOUSE AMENDMENT Bill No. SB 10A
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12	Representative Bilirakis offered the following:
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14	Amendment (with title amendment)
15	Remove everything after the enacting clause, and insert:
16	Section 1. Subsection (3) of section 943.053, Florida
17	Statutes, is amended to read:
18	943.053 Dissemination of criminal justice information;
19	fees.--
20	(3) Criminal history information, including information
21	relating to minors, compiled by the Criminal Justice Information
22	Program from intrastate sources shall be available on a priority
23	basis to criminal justice agencies, including state attorney
24	offices and public defender offices,for criminal justice
25	purposes free of charge and, otherwise, to governmental agencies
26	not qualified as criminal justice agencies on an approximate-
27	cost basis. After providing the program with all known
28	identifying information, persons in the private sector and
29	noncriminal justice agenciesmay be provided criminal history
30	information upon tender of fees as established and in the manner
31	prescribed by rule of the Department of Law Enforcement or as
32	otherwise established by the Legislature. Such fees shall, at a
33	minimum, ensure that the department is recoveringapproximate
34	the actualcost of producing the record information. As used in
35	this subsection, the department's determination of actual cost
36	shall take into accountthe total cost of creating, storing,
37	maintaining, updating, retrieving, improving, and providing
38	criminal history information in a centralized, automated
39	database, including personnel, technology, and infrastructure
40	expenses. The fees to be collectedActual costshall be computed
41	on a fee-per-record basis, and any access to criminal history
42	information by the private sector or noncriminal justice
43	agencies as provided in this subsection shall be assessed the
44	per-record feewithout regard to the quantity or category of
45	criminal history record information requested. Any fee imposed
46	pursuant to this subsection shall not exceed $23 andFeesmay be
47	waived or reducedby the executive director of the Department of
48	Law Enforcement for good cause shown.
49	Section 2. If any law amended by this act was also amended
50	by a law enacted at the 2003 Regular Session of the Legislature,
51	such laws shall be construed as if they had been enacted at the
52	same session of the Legislature, and full effect shall be given
53	to each if possible.
54	Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2003.
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57	Remove the entire title, and insert:
58	A bill to be entitled
59	An act relating to criminal history information fees;
60	amending s. 943.053, F.S.; revising provisions relating to
61	fees collected by the Department of Law Enforcement for
62	producing criminal history information; providing a
63	maximum fee limitation; authorizing the executive director
64	of the department to reduce such fees under certain
65	circumstances; providing for construction of the act in
66	pari materia with laws enacted during the 2003 Regular
67	Session of the Legislature; providing an effective date.