Florida Senate - 2009                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 2126
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                    Senate             .             House              
                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  04/16/2009           .                                
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       The Committee on Governmental Oversight and Accountability
       (King) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment 
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    3         Delete lines 46 - 60
    4  and insert:
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    6  necessity that proprietary confidential business information
    7  obtained from a communications company or broadband company by
    8  the Department of Management Services, or any person or agency
    9  authorized by the department, be held confidential and exempt
   10  from public-records requirements. Disclosure of proprietary
   11  confidential business information would adversely affect the
   12  business interests of communications and broadband companies
   13  providing such information by harming them in the marketplace
   14  and compromising the security of the communications network.
   15  Further, disclosure of such proprietary confidential business
   16  information would impair competition in the communications
   17  industry. Competitors can use such information to impede full
   18  and fair competition in the communications marketplace to the
   19  disadvantage of the consumers of communications services. Thus,
   20  it is the finding of the Legislature that proprietary
   21  confidential business information obtained