No. SB 76
Filed under Healthcare.
Public Records and Meetings/Social Work Licensure Interstate Compact; Providing an exemption from public records requirements for certain information held by the Department of Health or the Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, and Mental Health Counseling pursuant to the Social Work Licensure Interstate Compact; providing an exemption from public meetings requirements for certain meetings or portions of certain meetings of the Social Work Licensure Compact Commission or its executive committee or other committees; providing an exemption from public records requirements for recordings, minutes, and records generated during the exempt meetings or portions of such meetings; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemptions; providing statements of public necessity, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDIf Florida joins the Social Work Licensure Interstate Compact, a social worker's personal information shared through the compact's multistate database becomes exempt from Florida's public records law, except a worker's name, license status, and license number.
Meetings of the compact's governing commission can be closed to the public when they discuss information exempt from disclosure under federal or state law, and the recordings and minutes from those closed sessions also stay confidential.
These exemptions only take effect if a separate bill creating the compact itself also passes this session. The exemptions automatically expire in October 2031 unless the Legislature reviews and renews them.
AIA social worker's personal identifying information obtained through the compact's shared data system is exempt from Florida's public records law, unless the state that originally reported it authorizes disclosure under that state's own law.
AIA meeting or portion of a meeting of the Social Work Licensure Compact Commission, or its executive or other committees, is exempt from Florida's open-meetings law when it discusses matters exempt from disclosure under federal or state law.
AIRecordings, minutes, and records created during an exempt commission meeting are themselves exempt from Florida's public records law, keeping the substance of closed sessions confidential afterward.
AIBoth exemptions are subject to the Open Government Sunset Review Act and automatically expire on October 2, 2031, unless the Legislature reviews and reenacts them before then.