Florida SB 1314: Florida Capital Formation Act

Bill Text

1314 
Public Records and Meetings/Interstate Podiatric Medical Licensure Compact 
2026-01-07T06:24:24Z 
Providing an exemption from public records requirements for certain information held by the Department of Health or the Board of Podiatric Medicine pursuant to the Interstate Podiatric Medical Licensure Compact; authorizing the disclosure of such information under certain circumstances; providing an exemption from public meetings requirements for certain meetings or portions of certain meetings of the Interstate Podiatric Medical Licensure Compact Commission; 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 1314 

 By Senator Rodriguez 

 40-01338-26 20261314__ 
 1 A bill to be entitled 
 2 An act relating to public records and meetings; 
 3 creating s. 461.0182, 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 Podiatric Medicine pursuant to the Interstate 
 7 Podiatric Medical Licensure Compact; authorizing the 
 8 disclosure of such information under certain 
 9 circumstances; providing an exemption from public 
 10 meetings requirements for certain meetings or portions 
 11 of certain meetings of the Interstate Podiatric 
 12 Medical Licensure Compact Commission; providing an 
 13 exemption from public records requirements for 
 14 recordings, minutes, and records generated during the 
 15 exempt meetings or portions of such meetings; 
 16 providing for future legislative review and repeal of 
 17 the exemptions; providing statements of public 
 18 necessity; providing a contingent effective date. 
 19 
 20 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
 21 
 22 Section 1. Section 461.0182, Florida Statutes, is created 
 23 to read: 
 24 461.0182 Interstate Podiatric Medical Licensure Compact; 
 25 public records and meetings exemptions.— 
 26 (1) A podiatric physician’s personal identifying 
 27 information, other than the podiatric physician’s name, 
 28 licensure status, and licensure number, obtained from the 
 29 coordinated information system, as described in Art. VIII of s. 
 30 461.0181, and held by the department or the board is exempt from 
 31 s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution 
 32 unless the state that originally reported the information to the 
 33 coordinated information system authorizes the disclosure of such 
 34 information by law. If disclosure is so authorized, such 
 35 information may be disclosed only to the extent authorized by 
 36 the law of the reporting state. 
 37 (2)(a) A meeting or portion of a meeting of the Interstate 
 38 Podiatric Medical Licensure Compact Commission, established in 
 39 Art. XI of s. 461.0181, at which the commission must discuss 
 40 certain sensitive and confidential matters as specified in Art. 
 41 XI of s. 461.1081, is exempt from s. 286.011 and s. 24(b), Art. 
 42 I of the State Constitution. 
 43 (b) Recordings, minutes, and records generated during an 
 44 exempt meeting or portion of such a meeting are exempt from s. 
 45 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution. 
 46 (3) This section is subject to the Open Government Sunset 
 47 Review Act in accordance with s. 119.15 and shall stand repealed 
 48 on October 2, 2031, unless reviewed and saved from repeal 
 49 through reenactment by the Legislature. 
 50 Section 2. (1) The Legislature finds that it is a public 
 51 necessity that a podiatric physician’s personal identifying 
 52 information, other than the podiatric physician’s name, 
 53 licensure status, or licensure number, obtained from the 
 54 coordinated information system, as described in Article VIII of 
 55 s. 461.0181, Florida Statutes, and held by the Department of 
 56 Health or the Board of Podiatric Medicine be made exempt from s. 
 57 119.07(1), Florida Statutes, and s. 24(a), Article I of the 
 58 State Constitution. Protection of such information is required 
 59 under the Interstate Podiatric Medical Licensure Compact, which 
 60 a state must adopt in order to become a member state of the 
 61 compact. Without the public records exemption, this state will 
 62 be unable to effectively implement and administer the compact. 
 63 (2)(a) The Legislature finds that it is a public necessity 
 64 that any meeting of the Interstate Podiatric Medical Licensure 
 65 Compact Commission or the executive committee or other committee 
 66 of the commission held as provided in s. 461.0181, Florida 
 67 Statutes, in which matters specifically exempted from disclosure 
 68 by federal or state law are discussed be made exempt from s. 
 69 286.011, Florida Statutes, and s. 24(b), Article I of the State 
 70 Constitution. 
 71 (b) The Interstate Podiatric Medical Licensure Compact 
 72 requires the closure of any meeting, or any portion of a 
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