Florida Senate - 2014                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 656
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  03/20/2014           .                                
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       (Montford) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subsection (4) of section
    6  1008.24, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         1008.24 Test administration and security; public records
    8  exemption.—
    9         (4)
   10         (b) The identity of a school or postsecondary educational
   11  institution, personal identifying the personally identifiable
   12  information of any personnel of any school district or
   13  postsecondary educational institution, or any specific
   14  allegations of misconduct obtained or reported pursuant to an
   15  investigation conducted by the Department of Education of a
   16  testing impropriety are confidential and exempt from s.
   17  119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution until
   18  the conclusion of the investigation or until such time as the
   19  investigation ceases to be active. For the purpose of this
   20  paragraph, an investigation is shall be deemed concluded upon a
   21  finding that no impropriety has occurred, upon the conclusion of
   22  any resulting preliminary investigation pursuant to s. 1012.796,
   23  upon the completion of any resulting investigation by a law
   24  enforcement agency, or upon the referral of the matter to an
   25  employer who has the authority to take disciplinary action
   26  against an individual who is suspected of a testing impropriety.
   27  For the purpose of this paragraph, an investigation is shall be
   28  considered active so long as it is ongoing and there is a
   29  reasonable, good faith anticipation that an administrative
   30  finding will be made in the foreseeable future. This paragraph
   31  is subject to the Open Government Sunset Review Act in
   32  accordance with s. 119.15 and shall stand repealed on October 2,
   33  2014, unless reviewed and saved from repeal through reenactment
   34  by the Legislature.
   35         Section 2. This act shall take effect October 1, 2014.
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   37  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   38  And the title is amended as follows:
   39         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   40  and insert:
   41                        A bill to be entitled                      
   42         An act relating to a review under the Open Government
   43         Sunset Review Act; amending s. 1008.24, F.S., relating
   44         to an exemption from public records requirements for
   45         certain information held by the Department of
   46         Education during active investigations of allegations
   47         of testing impropriety; saving the exemption from
   48         repeal under the Open Government Sunset Review Act;
   49         providing an effective date.