Bill
SB 7006
The bill extends and preserves public-records and public-meetings exemptions for NG911/911/public-safety infrastructure details to protect security, adding NG911 coverage and delay
Status and timeline
- Enacted as Chapter No. 2025-90; approved by the Governor on May 23, 2025.
- Took effect upon becoming law.
- Favorably reported in committee and passed both chambers (Senate and House votes recorded as unanimous in committee and floor passages).
Purpose / intent
- To preserve and extend existing public-records and public-meetings exemptions that protect sensitive information about 911/E911/NG911 and public safety radio communications infrastructure, and to protect certain Florida Public Service Commission (PSC) meeting material discussing proprietary confidential business information. The stated public necessity is to protect the security and resilience of emergency communications infrastructure and to prevent materials that could facilitate criminal or terrorist attacks from being publicly accessible.
Key provisions
- Continues (saves from repeal) existing public-records exemptions for:
- Building plans, blueprints, schematic drawings, and diagrams (drafts, preliminary, final) showing structural elements of 911, E911, NG911, or public safety radio communication infrastructure (towers, antennas, equipment, facilities) owned or operated by an agency.
- Geographical maps showing actual or proposed locations of such infrastructure.
- Continues (saves from repeal) a public-meetings exemption (see s. 286.0113(4), F.S.) permitting closure of portions of meetings when discussion would reveal the protected information above.
- Requires that closed portions be recorded and transcribed; those recordings/transcripts are designated confidential and exempt from public-records laws (s. 119.07(1), F.S.) and the open-meetings clause of the Florida Constitution (Art. I, s. 24(a)).
- Explicitly adds Next Generation 911 (NG911) systems to the class of systems covered by the exemptions.
- Also preserves exemptions applicable to PSC hearings where proprietary confidential business information (already exempt under specific PSC-related statutes) is discussed, maintaining the requirement that such proceedings remain on the record but that recordings/transcripts remain confidential and exempt.
- Repeal timing:
- NG911/911/E911/public-safety exemptions originally scheduled to repeal (per Open Government Sunset Review) are extended; the bill sets a later repeal date of October 2, 2030 for those exemptions.
- PSC-related meeting/record exemptions are continued (the bill removes the scheduled repeal for those provisions).
Who is affected
- State and local agencies that possess architectural/engineering plans or maps for 911/NexGen911/public-safety radio facilities (e.g., counties, municipalities, public-safety agencies, PSC).
- Utility and communications providers that coordinate facilities with government agencies.
- Members of the public, media, and researchers — access to specified sensitive records and portions of meetings will be restricted.
- Courts and oversight bodies evaluating exemptions under the Open Government Sunset Review Act.
Fiscal impact and other notes
- Analyses indicate the bill is not expected to materially affect state or local government revenues or expenditures.
- The law reflects a security-focused balance between transparency and the need to protect critical emergency communications infrastructure from misuse.
Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.
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