Florida Senate - 2010                                    SB 1658
       
       
       
       By the Committee on Banking and Insurance
       
       
       
       
       597-02034-10                                          20101658__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to a review under the Open Government
    3         Sunset Review Act; amending s. 627.0628, F.S.,
    4         relating to an exemption from public-records
    5         requirements for trade secrets submitted by private
    6         companies to the Florida Commission on Hurricane Loss
    7         Projection Methodology, the Office of Insurance
    8         Regulation, or the consumer advocate and an exemption
    9         from public-meetings requirements for portions of
   10         meetings or rate proceedings wherein trade secrets are
   11         discussed; saving the exemptions from repeal under the
   12         Open Government Sunset Review Act; deleting provisions
   13         that provide for repeal of the exemptions; providing
   14         an effective date.
   15  
   16  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   18         Section 1. Paragraph (f) of subsection (3) of section
   19  627.0628, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   20         627.0628 Florida Commission on Hurricane Loss Projection
   21  Methodology; public records exemption; public meetings
   22  exemption.—
   23         (3) ADOPTION AND EFFECT OF STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES.—
   24         (f)1. A trade secret, as defined in s. 812.081, that is
   25  used in designing and constructing a hurricane loss model and
   26  that is provided pursuant to this section, by a private company,
   27  to the commission, office, or consumer advocate appointed
   28  pursuant to s. 627.0613, is confidential and exempt from s.
   29  119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution.
   30         2. That portion of a meeting of the commission or of a rate
   31  proceeding on an insurer’s rate filing at which a trade secret
   32  made confidential and exempt by this paragraph is discussed is
   33  exempt from s. 286.011 and s. 24(b), Art. I of the State
   34  Constitution.
   35         3. This paragraph is subject to the Open Government Sunset
   36  Review Act in accordance with s. 119.15, and shall stand
   37  repealed on October 2, 2010, unless reviewed and saved from
   38  repeal through reenactment by the Legislature.
   39         Section 2. This act shall take effect October 1, 2010.