Florida Senate - 2010                              CS for SB 962
       
       
       
       By the Committee on Transportation; and Senator Storms
       
       
       
       
       596-02028-10                                           2010962c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to driver’s licenses; amending s.
    3         322.142, F.S.; authorizing the Department of Highway
    4         Safety and Motor Vehicles to release copies of
    5         driver’s licenses to the Department of Children and
    6         Family Services for certain purposes relating to
    7         public assistance; providing an effective date.
    8  
    9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   11         Section 1. Subsection (4) of section 322.142, Florida
   12  Statutes, is amended to read:
   13         322.142 Color photographic or digital imaged licenses.—
   14         (4) The department may maintain a film negative or print
   15  file. The department shall maintain a record of the digital
   16  image and signature of the licensees, together with other data
   17  required by the department for identification and retrieval.
   18  Reproductions from the file or digital record are exempt from
   19  the provisions of s. 119.07(1) and shall be made and issued only
   20  for departmental administrative purposes; for the issuance of
   21  duplicate licenses; in response to law enforcement agency
   22  requests; to the Department of State pursuant to an interagency
   23  agreement to facilitate determinations of eligibility of voter
   24  registration applicants and registered voters in accordance with
   25  ss. 98.045 and 98.075; to the Department of Revenue pursuant to
   26  an interagency agreement for use in establishing paternity and
   27  establishing, modifying, or enforcing support obligations in
   28  Title IV-D cases; to the Department of Children and Family
   29  Services pursuant to an interagency agreement to conduct
   30  protective investigations under part III of chapter 39,
   31  specifying the number of employees in each region of the
   32  department to be granted entry for use as verification of
   33  identity to expedite the determination of eligibility for public
   34  assistance, or for use in public assistance fraud
   35  investigations; or to the Department of Financial Services
   36  pursuant to an interagency agreement to facilitate the location
   37  of owners of unclaimed property, the validation of unclaimed
   38  property claims, and the identification of fraudulent or false
   39  claims.
   40         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.