No. SB 1754
Filed under Healthcare.
Public Records and Meetings/Drug Overdose Death Review Committee/Suicide Death Review Committee; Creating an exemption from public records requirements for certain records and information held by the Drug Overdose Death Review Committee and the Suicide Death Review Committee, respectively, or a local review committee established thereunder; creating an exemption from public meetings requirements for portions of meetings of the committees which would reveal confidential and exempt information; providing for future legislative review and repeal; providing statements of public necessity, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDRecords held by the Drug Overdose Death Review Committee and the Suicide Death Review Committee, or any local review committee, that reveal a decedent's or family member's identity become confidential and exempt from Florida's public records law.
Meetings discussing that protected information can be closed to the public, though the closed portion must be recorded in full, with no off-the-record moments, and the recording preserved by the committee.
Sharing is allowed among the committees themselves, with any government agency acting within its duties, and with outside researchers who sign a privacy agreement with the Department of Health. Knowingly leaking protected records is a first-degree misdemeanor.
Both exemptions automatically expire on October 2, 2031 unless the Legislature reenacts them, and this whole act only takes effect if the separate bill creating these two committees also becomes law.
AIAny record or information held by either review committee, or a local review committee under them, that reveals the identity of a decedent who died by overdose or suicide, or their family member, is confidential and exempt from public records law.
AIA person who knowingly or willfully makes protected records public or discloses them to an unauthorized person commits a first-degree misdemeanor.
AIPortions of committee meetings discussing the protected records are exempt from the open-meetings law, but the closed portion must be recorded with no part left off the record, and the recording kept by the committee.
AIProtected records may be shared between the two committees, with government agencies acting within their duties, and with researchers who sign a privacy and security agreement with the Department of Health.
AIBoth exemptions expire automatically on October 2, 2031 unless the Legislature reviews and reenacts them under the Open Government Sunset Review Act.