Florida SB 76: State Park Campsite Reservations

Bill Text

76 
Public Records and Meetings/Social Work Licensure Interstate Compact 
2025-09-24T06:40:32Z 
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. 
Original Filed Version 
2026 
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General Bill 
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 Florida Senate - 2026 SB 76 

 By Senator Harrell 

 31-00219-26 202676__ 
 1 A bill to be entitled 
 2 An act relating to public records and meetings; 
 3 creating s. 491.023, F.S.; providing an exemption from 
 4 public records requirements for certain information 
 5 held by the Department of Health or the Board of 
 6 Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, and 
 7 Mental Health Counseling pursuant to the Social Work 
 8 Licensure Interstate Compact; authorizing the 
 9 disclosure of such information under certain 
 10 circumstances; providing an exemption from public 
 11 meetings requirements for certain meetings or portions 
 12 of certain meetings of the Social Work Licensure 
 13 Compact Commission or its executive committee or other 
 14 committees; providing an exemption from public records 
 15 requirements for recordings, minutes, and records 
 16 generated during the exempt meetings or portions of 
 17 such meetings; providing for future legislative review 
 18 and repeal of the exemptions; providing statements of 
 19 public necessity; providing a contingent effective 
 20 date. 
 21 
 22 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
 23 
 24 Section 1. Section 491.023, Florida Statutes, is created to 
 25 read: 
 26 491.023 Social Work Licensure Interstate Compact; public 
 27 records and meetings exemptions.— 
 28 (1) A social worker’s personal identifying information, 
 29 other than the social worker’s name, licensure status, or 
 30 licensure number, obtained from the data system, as described in 
 31 Art. XI of s. 491.022, and held by the department or the board 
 32 is exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State 
 33 Constitution unless the state that originally reported the 
 34 information to the data system authorizes the disclosure of such 
 35 information by law. If disclosure is so authorized, such 
 36 information may be disclosed only to the extent authorized by 
 37 the law of the reporting state. 
 38 (2)(a) A meeting or a portion of a meeting of the Social 
 39 Work Licensure Compact Commission or the executive committee or 
 40 other committee of the commission, established in Art. X of s. 
 41 491.022, at which matters specifically exempted from disclosure 
 42 by federal or state law are discussed is exempt from s. 286.011 
 43 and s. 24(b), Art. I of the State Constitution. 
 44 (b) Recordings, minutes, and records generated during an 
 45 exempt meeting or portion of such a meeting are exempt from s. 
 46 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution. 
 47 (3) This section is subject to the Open Government Sunset 
 48 Review Act in accordance with s. 119.15 and shall stand repealed 
 49 on October 2, 2031, unless reviewed and saved from repeal 
 50 through reenactment by the Legislature. 
 51 Section 2. (1) The Legislature finds that it is a public 
 52 necessity that a social worker’s personal identifying 
 53 information, other than the social worker’s name, licensure 
 54 status, or licensure number, obtained from the data system, as 
 55 described in Article XI of s. 491.022, Florida Statutes, and 
 56 held by the Department of Health or the Board of Clinical Social 
 57 Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, and Mental Health Counseling 
 58 be made exempt from s. 119.07(1), Florida Statutes, and s. 
 59 24(a), Article I of the State Constitution. Protection of such 
 60 information is required under the Social Work Licensure 
 61 Interstate Compact, which a state must adopt in order to become 
 62 a member state of the compact. Without the public records 
 63 exemption, this state will be unable to effectively implement 
 64 and administer the compact. 
 65 (2)(a) The Legislature finds that it is a public necessity 
 66 that any meeting of the Social Work Licensure Compact Commission 
 67 or the executive committee or other committee of the commission 
 68 held as provided in s. 491.022, Florida Statutes, in which 
 69 matters specifically exempted from disclosure by federal or 
 70 state law are discussed be made exempt from s. 286