Florida Senate - 2024                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for CS for SB 1662
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  02/27/2024           .                                
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       The Committee on Appropriations (Collins) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete lines 28 - 38
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Subsection (7) is added to section 287.0591,
    6  Florida Statutes, to read:
    7         287.0591 Information technology; vendor disqualification.—
    8         (7) To protect the state’s digital infrastructure from
    9  foreign invasion and digital terrorism, if a firm registered
   10  with the state’s information technology state term contract or
   11  any firm performing information technology, systems integration,
   12  digital solution engineering, or technology management
   13  consulting work for state agencies has been found to have shared
   14  security information, including, but not limited to, login and
   15  password credentials, with companies or individuals in non
   16  United States Trade Agreements Act compliant nations without the
   17  prior written consent of the contracting governmental client in
   18  dealings with state or federal contracts in the United States or
   19  its territories in the past 7 years, the firm must be
   20  disqualified from being awarded any state contract for work to
   21  be performed for the state, any special district, or any
   22  municipal subdivision.
   23         Section 2. Section 1004.444, Florida Statutes, is amended
   24  to read:
   25         1004.444 Florida Center for Cybersecurity.—
   26         (1) The Florida Center for Cybersecurity, which may also be
   27  referred to as “Cyber Florida,” is established within the
   28  University of South Florida, under the direction of the
   29  president of the university or the president’s designee.
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   32  And the title is amended as follows:
   33         Delete lines 3 - 10
   34  and insert:
   35         287.0591, F.S.; providing that certain firms are
   36         disqualified from being awarded specified state
   37         contracts if certain conditions exist; amending s.
   38         1004.444, F.S.; providing that the Florida Center for
   39         Cybersecurity may also be referred to as “Cyber
   40         Florida”; providing that the center is established
   41         under the direction of the president of the University
   42         of South Florida, or his or her designee; revising the
   43         mission and