Florida Senate - 2021                                    SB 7000
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Health Policy
       
       
       
       
       
       588-01375-21                                          20217000__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to a review under the Open Government
    3         Sunset Review Act; amending s. 464.0096, F.S., which
    4         provides an exemption from public record requirements
    5         for certain personal identifying information of nurses
    6         in the Nurse Licensure Compact and from public record
    7         and meeting requirements for certain meetings or
    8         portions of meetings and certain records held by the
    9         Interstate Commission of Nurse Licensure Compact
   10         Administrators; removing the scheduled repeal of the
   11         exemptions; providing an effective date.
   12          
   13  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   15         Section 1. Section 464.0096, Florida Statutes, is amended
   16  to read:
   17         464.0096 Nurse Licensure Compact; public records and
   18  meetings exemptions.—
   19         (1) A nurse’s personal identifying information, other than
   20  the nurse’s name, licensure status, or licensure number,
   21  obtained from the coordinated licensure information system, as
   22  defined in s. 464.0095, and held by the department or the board
   23  is exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State
   24  Constitution unless the state that originally reported the
   25  information to the coordinated licensure information system
   26  authorizes the disclosure of such information by law. Under such
   27  circumstances, the information may only be disclosed to the
   28  extent permitted by the reporting state’s law.
   29         (2)(a) A meeting or portion of a meeting of the Interstate
   30  Commission of Nurse Licensure Compact Administrators established
   31  under s. 464.0095 at which matters specifically exempted from
   32  disclosure by federal or state statute are discussed is exempt
   33  from s. 286.011 and s. 24(b), Art. I of the State Constitution.
   34         (b) Recordings, minutes, and records generated during an
   35  exempt meeting are exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I
   36  of the State Constitution.
   37         (3) This section is subject to the Open Government Sunset
   38  Review Act in accordance with s. 119.15 and shall stand repealed
   39  on October 2, 2021, unless reviewed and saved from repeal
   40  through reenactment by the Legislature.
   41         Section 2. This act shall take effect October 1, 2021.