Florida Senate - 2024                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1000
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  02/06/2024           .                                
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       The Committee on Governmental Oversight and Accountability
       (DiCeglie) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 28 - 84
    4  and insert:
    5         submitted to the clerk or property appraiser for the
    6  purpose of registering for a recording notification service or a
    7  related service pursuant to this section, are confidential and
    8  exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State
    9  Constitution, except upon court order. This paragraph applies to
   10  information held by the clerk or property appraiser before, on,
   11  or after the effective date of this act. This paragraph is
   12  subject to the Open Government Sunset Review Act in accordance
   13  with s. 119.15 and shall stand repealed on October 2, 2029,
   14  unless reviewed and saved from repeal through reenactment by the
   15  Legislature.
   16         Section 2. The Division of Law Revision is directed to
   17  replace the phrase “the effective date of this act” wherever it
   18  occurs in this act with the date this act becomes a law.
   19         Section 3. The Legislature finds that it is a public
   20  necessity that all electronic mail addresses, telephone numbers,
   21  personal and business names, and parcel identification numbers
   22  submitted to the clerk or property appraiser for the purpose of
   23  registering for a recording notification service or a related
   24  service under s. 28.47, Florida Statutes, be made confidential
   25  and exempt from s. 119.07(1), Florida Statutes, and s. 24(a),
   26  Article I of the State Constitution. The recording notification
   27  service, created in response to a recent increase in fraudulent
   28  real property conveyances, notifies a registrant by electronic
   29  mail when a land record associated with the registrant’s
   30  monitored identity has been recorded in the public records of
   31  the county so that the registrant may quickly identify a
   32  fraudulent conveyance and take necessary action. Some clerks and
   33  property appraisers have also begun offering related services
   34  for which a person may register to receive notifications of
   35  potentially fraudulent real property transfers by an alternative
   36  form of communication, such as by text message. The Legislature
   37  finds that it is a public necessity to protect persons who
   38  register for a recording notification service or a related
   39  service offered pursuant to this section from becoming victims
   40  of other types of fraud by virtue of their status as a person
   41  whose information has been submitted for monitoring. The
   42  Legislature also finds that it is a public necessity to protect
   43  persons whose personal or business names or parcel
   44  identification numbers are not submitted to a recording
   45  notification service or a related service for monitoring from
   46  becoming the target of a fraudulent real property conveyance by
   47  virtue of their lack of participation in any such service. Thus,
   48  the Legislature finds that this act serves a compelling state
   49  interest. The Legislature further finds that the harm that may
   50  result from the release of the electronic mail addresses,
   51  telephone numbers, personal and business names, and parcel
   52  identification numbers submitted to the clerk or property
   53  appraiser for the purpose of registering for a recording
   54  notification service or a related service pursuant to this
   55  section outweighs any public benefit that may be
   56  
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   58  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   59  And the title is amended as follows:
   60         Delete lines 5 - 6
   61  and insert:
   62         for the purpose of registering for a recording
   63         notification service or a related service is
   64         confidential and