Senate Bill sb1162

    Florida Senate - 2004                                  SB 1162

    By the Committee on Communication and Public Utilities





    319-848A-04

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to a review under the Open

  3         Government Sunset Review Act; amending s.

  4         365.174, F.S., relating to an exemption from

  5         public-records requirements provided for

  6         proprietary confidential business information

  7         held by the Wireless 911 Board or the State

  8         Technology Office; saving the exemption from

  9         repeal under the Open Government Sunset Review

10         Act; deleting provisions that provide for the

11         repeal of the exemption; providing an effective

12         date.

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14  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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16         Section 1.  Section 365.174, Florida Statutes, is

17  amended to read:

18         365.174  Proprietary confidential business

19  information.--

20         (1)  All proprietary confidential business information

21  submitted by a provider to the board or the office, including

22  the name and billing or service addresses of service

23  subscribers, and trade secrets as defined by s. 812.081, is

24  confidential and exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I

25  of the State Constitution. Statistical abstracts of

26  information collected by the board or the office may be

27  released or published, but only in a manner that does not

28  identify or allow identification of subscribers or their

29  service numbers or of revenues attributable to any provider.

30         (2)  As used in this section, the term "proprietary

31  confidential business information" means customer lists,

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    Florida Senate - 2004                                  SB 1162
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 1  customer numbers, and other related information, technology

 2  descriptions, technical information, or trade secrets,

 3  including trade secrets as defined in s. 812.081, and the

 4  actual or developmental costs of E911 systems that are

 5  developed, produced, or received internally by a provider or

 6  by a provider's employees, directors, officers, or agents.

 7         (3)  This section is subject to the Open Government

 8  Sunset Review Act of 1995 in accordance with s. 119.15, and

 9  shall stand repealed on October 1, 2004, unless reviewed and

10  saved from repeal through reenactment by the Legislature.

11         Section 2.  This act shall take effect October 1, 2004.

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14                          SENATE SUMMARY

15    Removes the repeal of an exemption from the public
      records law for proprietary business information held by
16    the Wireless 911 Board or the State Technology Office and
      which is scheduled to occur on October 1, 2004, under the
17    Open Government Sunset Review Act.

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