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SF 596 Senate Long Description

2E Relating to data practices; clarifying duties and classifications, making technical changes and clarifying definitions relating to government data practices, substituting the term government entity in place of the terms state agency, political subdivision or statewide system; requiring judicial branch data disseminated to government entities to have the same level of accessibility as the agency receiving the data; changing and clarifying homestead classification tax data, classifying certain department of transportation (DOT) market research, overhead rate and bid escrow data sets as private data on individuals, nonpublic data or public data; specifying bureau of mediation services representation and mediation data as protected and nonpublic data or confidential data on individuals; requiring public criminal history data reaction under certain conditions and classifying certain data as private data; defining integrated search service (ISS) and authorizing individuals to request ISS queries to locate data on individuals; requiring landowner disclosure of property value prior to offer; expanding the use of drivers license photographic images to criminal justice agencies and public defenders under certain conditions; clarifying the department corrections use of certain data; authorizing the commissioner of revenue to use tax return information for debt collection and to disclose job opportunity building zone (JOBZ) and biotechnology and health sciences industry zone tax information to the department of employment and economic development (DEED) and appropriate public officials for benefits purposes; modifying certain restrictions on the use of social security numbers; modifying the effective date for a previously enacted provision relating to social security numbers; imposing an effective date for a provision relating to the use of social security numbers; repealing department of labor and industry bureau of mediation services representation and mediation data and repealing the continuation of prior use of social security numbers authority
(cH. 129, 2007)