Bill Text: FL H0479 | 2010 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Driver License Records

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-04-27 - Placed on Special Order Calendar; Substituted CS/SB 962; Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/SB 962 (Ch. 2010-207), CS/HB 91 (Ch. 2010-31) -HJ 01170 [H0479 Detail]

Download: Florida-2010-H0479-Comm_Sub.html

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CS/HB 479

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

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