Bill Text: FL S1372 | 2022 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Public Records and Meetings/Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2022-03-14 - Died in Health Policy [S1372 Detail]

Download: Florida-2022-S1372-Introduced.html
       Florida Senate - 2022                                    SB 1372
       
       
        
       By Senator Harrell
       
       
       
       
       
       25-01708A-22                                          20221372__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to public records and meetings;
    3         creating s. 490.0076, F.S.; providing an exemption
    4         from public records requirements for certain
    5         information held by the Department of Health or the
    6         Board of Psychology pursuant to the Psychology
    7         Interjurisdictional Compact; authorizing disclosure of
    8         the information under certain circumstances; providing
    9         an exemption from public meeting requirements for
   10         certain meetings of the Psychology Interjurisdictional
   11         Compact Commission; providing an exemption from public
   12         records requirements for recordings, minutes, and
   13         records generated during the closed portion of such
   14         meetings; providing for future legislative review and
   15         repeal of the exemptions; providing a statement of
   16         public necessity; providing a contingent effective
   17         date.
   18          
   19  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   20  
   21         Section 1. Section 490.0076, Florida Statutes, is created
   22  to read:
   23         490.0076Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact; public
   24  records and meetings exemptions.—
   25         (1)A psychologist’s personal identifying information,
   26  other than the psychologist’s name, licensure status, or
   27  licensure number, obtained from the coordinated licensure
   28  information system, as described in article IX of s. 490.0075,
   29  and held by the department or the board is exempt from s.
   30  119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution unless
   31  the state that originally reported the information to the
   32  coordinated licensure information system authorizes the
   33  disclosure of such information by law. If disclosure is so
   34  authorized, information may be disclosed only to the extent
   35  authorized by law by the reporting state.
   36         (2)(a)A meeting or a portion of a meeting of the
   37  Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact Commission, established
   38  in article X of s. 490.0075, is exempt from s. 286.011 and s.
   39  24(b), Art. I of the State Constitution if the commission must
   40  discuss:
   41         1.Noncompliance of a compact state with its obligations
   42  under the compact;
   43         2.Employment, compensation, or discipline of, or other
   44  personnel matters, practices, or procedures related to, specific
   45  employees or other matters related to the commission’s internal
   46  personnel practices and procedures;
   47         3.Current, threatened, or reasonably anticipated
   48  litigation against the commission;
   49         4.Negotiation of contracts for the purchase or sale of
   50  goods, services, or real estate;
   51         5.An accusation of any person of a crime or a formal
   52  censure of any person;
   53         6.Information disclosing trade secrets or commercial or
   54  financial information that is privileged or confidential;
   55         7.Information of a personal nature when disclosure would
   56  constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy;
   57         8.Investigatory records compiled for law enforcement
   58  purposes;
   59         9.Information related to any investigatory reports
   60  prepared by or on behalf of or for the use of the commission or
   61  another committee charged with responsibility for investigation
   62  or determination of compliance issues pursuant to the compact;
   63  or
   64         10.Matters specifically exempted from disclosure by
   65  federal or state statute.
   66         (b)In keeping with the intent of the Psychology
   67  Interjurisdictional Compact, recordings, minutes, and records
   68  generated during an exempt commission meeting or a portion of
   69  such a meeting are exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I
   70  of the State Constitution.
   71         (3)This section is subject to the Open Government Sunset
   72  Review Act in accordance with s. 119.15 and shall stand repealed
   73  on October 2, 2027, unless reviewed and saved from repeal
   74  through reenactment by the Legislature.
   75         Section 2. (1)The Legislature finds that it is a public
   76  necessity that a psychologist’s personal identifying
   77  information, other than the psychologist’s name, licensure
   78  status, or licensure number, obtained from the coordinated
   79  licensure information system, as described in article IX of s.
   80  490.0075, Florida Statutes, and held by the Department of Health
   81  or the Board of Psychology, be made exempt from s. 119.07(1),
   82  Florida Statutes, and s. 24(a), Article I of the State
   83  Constitution. Protection of such information is required under
   84  the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact, which the state must
   85  adopt in order to become a member state of the compact. Without
   86  the public records exemption, this state will be unable to
   87  effectively and efficiently implement and administer the
   88  compact.
   89         (2)(a)The Legislature finds that it is a public necessity
   90  that any meeting of the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact
   91  Commission held as provided in article X of s. 490.0075, Florida
   92  Statutes, in which matters specifically exempted from disclosure
   93  by federal or state law are discussed be made exempt from s.
   94  286.011, Florida Statutes, and s. 24(b), Article I of the State
   95  Constitution.
   96         (b)The Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact requires the
   97  closing of any meeting, or any portion of a meeting, of the
   98  Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact Commission if the
   99  commission is discussing certain sensitive and confidential
  100  subjects or if a majority of the commission members vote to
  101  close a meeting to the public in whole or in part. In the
  102  absence of a public meeting exemption, this state would be
  103  prohibited from becoming a member state of the compact.
  104         (3)The Legislature also finds that it is a public
  105  necessity that the recordings, minutes, and records generated
  106  during a meeting that is exempt pursuant to s. 490.0076(2),
  107  Florida Statutes, be made exempt from s. 119.07(1), Florida
  108  Statutes, and s. 24(a), Article I of the State Constitution.
  109  Release of such information would negate the public meeting
  110  exemption. As such, the Legislature finds that the public
  111  records exemption is a public necessity.
  112         Section 3. This act shall take effect on the same date that
  113  SB ____ or similar legislation takes effect, if such legislation
  114  is adopted in the same legislative session or an extension
  115  thereof and becomes a law.

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