Florida Senate - 2021                   (PROPOSED BILL) SPB 7022
       
       
        
       FOR CONSIDERATION By the Committee on Regulated Industries
       
       
       
       
       
       580-01519-21                                          20217022pb
    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; removing the scheduled repeal
   10         of the exemption; providing an effective date.
   11          
   12  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   14         Section 1. Section 365.174, Florida Statutes, is amended to
   15  read:
   16         365.174 Proprietary confidential business information.—
   17         (1)(a) All proprietary confidential business information
   18  submitted by a provider to the board or the office is
   19  confidential and exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I
   20  of the State Constitution.
   21         (b) Statistical abstracts of information collected by the
   22  board or the office may be released or published, but only in a
   23  manner that does not identify or allow identification of
   24  subscribers or their service numbers or of revenues attributable
   25  to any provider.
   26         (2)(a) All proprietary confidential business information
   27  submitted by a provider to the Department of Revenue, as an
   28  agent of the board, is confidential and exempt from s. 119.07(1)
   29  and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution.
   30         (b) The Department of Revenue may provide information
   31  relative to s. 365.172(9) to the Secretary of Management
   32  Services, or his or her authorized agent, or to the E911 Board
   33  established in s. 365.172(5) for use in the conduct of the
   34  official business of the Department of Management Services or
   35  the E911 Board.
   36         (3) As used in this section, the term “proprietary
   37  confidential business information” means customer lists,
   38  customer numbers, individual or aggregate customer data by
   39  location, usage and capacity data, network facilities used to
   40  serve subscribers, technology descriptions, technical
   41  information, or trade secrets, including trade secrets as
   42  defined in s. 812.081, and the actual or developmental costs of
   43  E911 systems that are developed, produced, or received
   44  internally by a provider or by a provider’s employees,
   45  directors, officers, or agents.
   46         (4) This section is subject to the Open Government Sunset
   47  Review Act in accordance with s. 119.15 and shall stand repealed
   48  on October 2, 2021, unless reviewed and saved from repeal
   49  through reenactment by the Legislature.
   50         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2021.