Florida Senate - 2019                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS/SB 7068, 1st Eng.
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       Senator Lee moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment 
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    3         Delete lines 755 - 803
    4  and insert:
    5         (a) Document in a written memorandum by the secretary the
    6  specific reasons that such settlement and payment to a
    7  nonselected responsive bidder is in the best interest of the
    8  state. The written memorandum must be included and maintained in
    9  the department’s permanent files concerning the procurement and
   10  must include:
   11         1. A description of the property rights, patent rights,
   12  copyrights, trademarks, or the engineering design or other
   13  design work that the department will acquire or retain as a
   14  result of such settlement; and
   15         2. The specific appropriation in the existing General
   16  Appropriations Act which the department intends to use to
   17  provide such payment.
   18         (b) Provide prior written notification to the President of
   19  the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the
   20  Senate and House of Representatives minority leaders, the chair
   21  and vice chair of the Legislative Budget Commission, and the
   22  Attorney General at least 5 business days, or as soon thereafter
   23  as practicable, before the department makes the settlement
   24  agreement final. Such written notification must include the
   25  written memorandum required pursuant to paragraph (a).
   26         (c) Provide, at the time settlement discussions regarding
   27  any such payment have begun in earnest, written notification of
   28  such discussions to the President of the Senate, the Speaker of
   29  the House of Representatives, the Senate and House of
   30  Representatives minority leaders, the chair and vice chair of
   31  the Legislative Budget Commission, and the Attorney General.