Bill Text: FL S1500 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Public Records and Meetings/Audiology and Speech-language Pathology Interstate Compact Commission

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2024-03-08 - Died in Health Policy [S1500 Detail]

Download: Florida-2024-S1500-Introduced.html

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       Florida Senate - 2024                                    SB 1500
       
       
        
       By Senator Wright
       
       
       
       
       
       8-01599-24                                            20241500__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to public records and meetings;
    3         creating s. 468.1336, F.S.; providing an exemption
    4         from public meetings requirements for certain portions
    5         of meetings of the Audiology and Speech-language
    6         Pathology Interstate Compact Commission and its
    7         executive committee; providing an exemption from
    8         public records requirements for recordings, minutes,
    9         and records generated during exempt portions of such
   10         meetings; providing for future legislative review and
   11         repeal of the exemptions; providing statements of
   12         public necessity; providing a contingent effective
   13         date.
   14          
   15  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   17         Section 1. Section 468.1336, Florida Statutes, is created
   18  to read:
   19         468.1336 Audiology and Speech-language Pathology Interstate
   20  Compact Commission; public meetings and public records
   21  exemptions.—
   22         (1) Any portion of a meeting of the Audiology and Speech
   23  language Pathology Interstate Compact Commission or its
   24  executive committee in which any of the following information is
   25  discussed is exempt from s. 286.011 and s. 24(b), Art. I of the
   26  State Constitution:
   27         (a) Noncompliance of a member state with its obligations
   28  under the compact;
   29         (b) The employment, compensation, discipline, or other
   30  matters, practices, or procedures related to specific employees
   31  or other matters related to the commission’s internal personnel
   32  practices and procedures;
   33         (c) Current, threatened, or reasonably anticipated
   34  litigation;
   35         (d) Negotiation of contracts for the purchase, lease, or
   36  sale of goods, services, or real estate;
   37         (e) Accusing any person of a crime or formally censuring
   38  any person;
   39         (f) Trade secrets or commercial or financial information
   40  that is privileged or confidential;
   41         (g) Information of a personal nature if disclosure would
   42  constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy;
   43         (h) Investigative records compiled for law enforcement
   44  purposes;
   45         (i) Information relating to any investigative reports
   46  prepared by or on behalf of or for use by the commission or
   47  executive committee when investigating or determining compliance
   48  with the compact; or
   49         (j) Matters specifically exempted from disclosure by
   50  federal or state practice laws.
   51         (2) Recordings, minutes, and records generated during any
   52  portion of an exempt meeting are exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s.
   53  24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution.
   54         (3) This section is subject to the Open Government Sunset
   55  Review Act in accordance with s. 119.15 and shall stand repealed
   56  on October 2, 2029, unless reviewed and saved from repeal
   57  through reenactment by the Legislature.
   58         Section 2. (1) The Legislature finds that it is a public
   59  necessity that any portion of a meeting of the Audiology and
   60  Speech-language Pathology Interstate Compact Commission or its
   61  executive committee in which any information in s. 468.1336(1),
   62  Florida Statutes, is discussed be made exempt from s. 286.011,
   63  Florida Statutes, and s. 24(b), Article I of the State
   64  Constitution.
   65         (2) The Audiology and Speech-language Pathology Interstate
   66  Compact requires that any portion of a meeting in which any
   67  information in s. 468.1336(1), Florida Statutes, is discussed be
   68  closed to the public. In the absence of a public meetings
   69  exemption, this state would be prohibited from becoming a member
   70  state of the compact. Thus, this state would be unable to
   71  effectively and efficiently administer the compact.
   72         (3) The Legislature also finds that it is a public
   73  necessity that the recordings, minutes, and records generated
   74  during any portion of a meeting in which any information in s.
   75  468.1336(1), Florida Statutes, is discussed be made exempt from
   76  s. 119.07(1), Florida Statutes, and s. 24(a), Article I of the
   77  State Constitution. Release of such information would negate the
   78  public meetings exemption. As such, the Legislature finds that
   79  the public records exemption is a public necessity.
   80         Section 3. This act shall take effect on the same date that
   81  SB_____ or similar legislation takes effect, if such legislation
   82  is adopted in the same legislative session or an extension
   83  thereof and becomes a law.