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    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to driver license records; amending s.
    3         322.142, F.S.; revising the authorized uses of license
    4         identification information maintained by the
    5         Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles and
    6         released to the Department of Children and Family
    7         Services; authorizing use for certain adult protective
    8         services investigations; providing conditions for such
    9         information to be used for verification of identity in
   10         determination of eligibility for public assistance and
   11         for certain fraud investigations; providing an
   12         effective date.
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   14  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   16         Section 1. Subsection (4) of section 322.142, Florida
   17  Statutes, is amended to read:
   18         322.142 Color photographic or digital imaged licenses.—
   19         (4) The department may maintain a film negative or print
   20  file. The department shall maintain a record of the digital
   21  image and signature of the licensees, together with other data
   22  required by the department for identification and retrieval.
   23  Reproductions from the file or digital record are exempt from
   24  the provisions of s. 119.07(1) and shall be made and issued only
   25  for departmental administrative purposes; for the issuance of
   26  duplicate licenses; in response to law enforcement agency
   27  requests; to the Department of State pursuant to an interagency
   28  agreement to facilitate determinations of eligibility of voter
   29  registration applicants and registered voters in accordance with
   30  ss. 98.045 and 98.075; to the Department of Revenue pursuant to
   31  an interagency agreement for use in establishing paternity and
   32  establishing, modifying, or enforcing support obligations in
   33  Title IV-D cases; to the Department of Children and Family
   34  Services pursuant to an interagency agreement to conduct
   35  protective investigations under part III of chapter 39 and
   36  chapter 415; to the Department of Children and Family Services
   37  pursuant to an interagency agreement specifying the number of
   38  employees in each of that department’s regions to be granted
   39  access to the records for use as verification of identity to
   40  expedite the determination of eligibility for public assistance
   41  and for use in public assistance fraud investigations; or to the
   42  Department of Financial Services pursuant to an interagency
   43  agreement to facilitate the location of owners of unclaimed
   44  property, the validation of unclaimed property claims, and the
   45  identification of fraudulent or false claims.
   46         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.