Florida Senate Bill 1494

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Failed on March 8 2024 - 100% progression
Action: 2024-03-08 - Died in Governmental Oversight and Accountability
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Prohibiting an agency from charging a certain fee under a specified circumstance; providing that custodians of public records may rely solely on certain required safeguards to determine whether records are partly or wholly exempt from disclosure; increasing the maximum civil penalty allowed for certain violations related to public records; requiring that courts set immediate hearings on certain actions and give such hearings priority over all other pending cases until specified conditions are satisfied; providing that a complainant is not required to provide a certain written notice to an agency when the initial public records request was furnished to the agency's custodian in written form, by e-mail, or through the agency's website, etc.

Public Records Requests

Sen. Jason Pizzo [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-03-08	Senate	Died in Governmental Oversight and Accountability
2024-01-10	Senate	Introduced
2024-01-10	Senate	Referred to Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Judiciary; Rules
2024-01-05	Senate	Filed

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
119	07		Amended Code	See Bill Text
119	0701		Amended Code	See Bill Text
119	10		Amended Code	See Bill Text
119	11		Amended Code	See Bill Text
119	12		Amended Code	See Bill Text
213	732		Amended Code	See Bill Text
39	00145		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1494
Text	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1494/BillText/Filed/HTML