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FL H0529
Bill
Status
Introduced
11/17/2023
Primary Sponsor
Ethics, Elections & Open Government Subcommittee
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AI Summary
- Photographs, video recordings, and audio recordings depicting the suicide of a person are made confidential and exempt from Florida's public records requirements, adding suicide to existing exemptions for killings of law enforcement officers, minors, and mass violence victims.
- Autopsy reports of persons whose manner of death was determined by a medical examiner to be suicide are made confidential and exempt from public records requirements under a new provision in s. 406.135, F.S.
- Surviving spouses may access the exempt records; if no surviving spouse, access passes to surviving parents, then to adult children and siblings. Surviving family members may also share or publicly release the records and may designate a written agent to obtain them.
- Willful and knowing violation of the exemption by a records custodian, or violation of a court order issued under these provisions, constitutes a third-degree felony.
- Both exemptions apply retroactively regardless of when the suicide occurred, are subject to the Open Government Sunset Review Act, and stand repealed on October 2, 2029, unless reenacted by the Legislature.
Legislative Description
Pub. Rec./Photographs, Recordings, and Reports of Autopsies of Suicide Victims
Last Action
Laid on Table
3/4/2024
Committee Referrals
State Affairs1/23/2024
Health And Human Services1/11/2024
Ethics, Elections & Open Government Subcommittee11/30/2023
Full Bill Text
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