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    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to a review under the Open Government
    3         Sunset Review Act; amending s. 365.174, F.S., which
    4         provides an exemption from public records requirements
    5         for proprietary confidential business information
    6         submitted by a voice communications services provider
    7         to the E911 Board, the Division of Telecommunications
    8         within the Department of Management Services, or the
    9         Department of Revenue; amending the definition of the
   10         term “proprietary confidential business information”;
   11         removing the scheduled repeal of the exemption;
   12         providing an effective date.
   13          
   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 amended to
   17  read:
   18         365.174 Proprietary confidential business information.—
   19         (1)(a) All proprietary confidential business information
   20  submitted by a provider to the board or the office is
   21  confidential and exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I
   22  of the State Constitution.
   23         (b) Statistical abstracts of information collected by the
   24  board or the office may be released or published, but only in a
   25  manner that does not identify or allow identification of
   26  subscribers or their service numbers or of revenues attributable
   27  to any provider.
   28         (2)(a) All proprietary confidential business information
   29  submitted by a provider to the Department of Revenue, as an
   30  agent of the board, is confidential and exempt from s. 119.07(1)
   31  and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution.
   32         (b) The Department of Revenue may provide information
   33  relative to s. 365.172(9) to the Secretary of Management
   34  Services, or his or her authorized agent, or to the E911 Board
   35  established in s. 365.172(5) for use in the conduct of the
   36  official business of the Department of Management Services or
   37  the E911 Board.
   38         (3) As used in this section, the term “proprietary
   39  confidential business information” means customer lists,
   40  customer numbers, individual or aggregate customer data by
   41  location, usage and capacity data, network facilities used to
   42  serve subscribers, technology descriptions, or technical
   43  information, or trade secrets, including trade secrets as
   44  defined in s. 812.081, and the actual or developmental costs of
   45  E911 systems that are developed, produced, or received
   46  internally by a provider or by a provider’s employees,
   47  directors, officers, or agents.
   48         (4) This section is subject to the Open Government Sunset
   49  Review Act in accordance with s. 119.15 and shall stand repealed
   50  on October 2, 2021, unless reviewed and saved from repeal
   51  through reenactment by the Legislature.
   52         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2021.