Bill Text: FL S7192 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: OGSR/Lifeline Assistance Plan Participants
Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: (N/A - Dead) 2012-01-27 - Submit as committee bill by Governmental Oversight and Accountability (SB 2080) [S7192 Detail]
Download: Florida-2012-S7192-Introduced.html
Florida Senate - 2012 (PROPOSED COMMITTEE BILL) SPB 7192 FOR CONSIDERATION By the Committee on Governmental Oversight and Accountability 585-01615A-12 20127192__ 1 A bill to be entitled 2 An act relating to a review under the Open Government 3 Sunset Review Act; amending s. 364.107, F.S., relating 4 to an exemption from public records requirements for 5 personal identifying information of Lifeline 6 Assistance Plan participants; providing a penalty for 7 intentional disclosure of confidential and exempt 8 information by an officer or employee of the Public 9 Service Commission; saving the exemption from repeal 10 under the Open Government Sunset Review Act; removing 11 the scheduled repeal of the exemption; providing an 12 effective date. 13 14 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 15 16 Section 1. Section 364.107, Florida Statutes, is amended to 17 read: 18 364.107 Public records exemption; Lifeline Assistance Plan 19 participants.— 20 (1) Personal identifying information of a participant in a 21 telecommunications carrier’s Lifeline Assistance Plan under s. 22 364.10 held by the Public Service Commission is confidential and 23 exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State 24 Constitution. 25 (2) Information made confidential and exempt under 26 subsection (1) may be released to the applicable 27 telecommunications carrier for purposes directly connected with 28 eligibility for, verification related to, or auditing of a 29 Lifeline Assistance Plan. 30 (3)(a) An officer or employee of a telecommunications 31 carrier shall not intentionally disclose information made 32 confidential and exempt under subsection (1), except as: 33 1. Authorized by the customer; 34 2. Necessary for billing purposes; 35 3. Required by subpoena, court order, or other process of 36 court; 37 4. Necessary to disclose to an agency as defined in s. 38 119.011 or a governmental entity for purposes directly connected 39 with implementing service for, or verifying eligibility of, a 40 participant in a Lifeline Assistance Plan or auditing a Lifeline 41 Assistance Plan; or 42 5. Otherwise authorized by law. 43 (b) Nothing in this section precludes a telecommunications 44 carrier from disclosing information made confidential and exempt 45 under subsection (1) to the extent such information is otherwise 46 publicly available or from disclosing to a customer his or her 47 own account record through telephonic means. 48 (4)(c)Any officer or employee of a telecommunications 49 carrier or of the Public Service Commission who intentionally 50 discloses information in violation of this sectionparagraph (a)51 commits a misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable as 52 provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083. 53(4) This section is subject to the Open Government Sunset54Review Act in accordance with s.119.15and shall stand repealed55on October 2, 2012, unless reviewed and saved from repeal56through reenactment by the Legislature.57 Section 2. This act shall take effect October 1, 2012.