Florida Senate - 2020                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 7010
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       The Committee on Rules (Wright) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 34 - 79
    4  and insert:
    5         b. “Overseas service” means participation in an overseas
    6  military operation, such as crisis response, infrastructure and
    7  coalition support for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan,
    8  humanitarian assistance in the Middle East and North Africa, and
    9  embassy security, as well as other needs abroad in the Global
   10  War on Terrorism.
   11         c. “Servicemember” means a current or former member of the
   12  Armed Forces of the United States, a reserve component of the
   13  Armed Forces of the United States, or the National Guard, who
   14  was deployed to overseas service for the United States
   15  Department of Defense served after September 11, 2001.
   16         2. Identification and location information held by an
   17  agency is exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the
   18  State Constitution if a servicemember submits to an agency that
   19  has custody of the identification and location information:
   20         a. A written request to exempt the identification and
   21  location information from public disclosure; and
   22         b. A copy of the servicemember’s United States Department
   23  of Defense form DD-214 or a statement from the servicemember’s
   24  commander that the servicemember deployed to overseas service
   25  after September 11, 2001; and
   26         c. A written statement that the servicemember he or she has
   27  made reasonable efforts to protect the identification and
   28  location information from being accessible through other means
   29  available to the public.
   30         3. This exemption applies to identification and location
   31  information held by an agency before, on, or after the effective
   32  date of this exemption.
   33         4. This paragraph is subject to the Open Government Sunset
   34  Review Act in accordance with s. 119.15 and shall stand repealed
   35  on October 2, 2025 2020, unless reviewed and saved from repeal
   36  through reenactment by the Legislature.
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   38  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   39  And the title is amended as follows:
   40         Delete lines 7 - 13
   41  and insert:
   42         servicemembers; revising and defining terms; narrowing
   43         the exemption by requiring the servicemember to have
   44         been deployed to overseas service for the United
   45         States Department of Defense; requiring a
   46         servicemember to provide certain documentation to the
   47         custodial agency in order for his or her
   48         identification and location information to be subject
   49         to the exemption; revising the scheduled repeal of the
   50         exemption; providing an effective date.