Senate Bill sb0476

    Florida Senate - 2002                                   SB 476

    By the Committee on Transportation





    306-597-02

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to a public-records exemption

  3         for certain information relating to deepwater

  4         ports; amending s. 315.18, F.S.; abrogating the

  5         future legislative review and repeal of the

  6         exemptions scheduled under the Open Government

  7         Sunset Review Act of 1995; providing an

  8         effective date.

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10  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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12         Section 1.  Section 315.18, Florida Statutes, is

13  amended to read:

14         315.18  Confidentiality of certain records held by

15  deepwater ports.--Any proposal or counterproposal exchanged

16  between a deepwater port listed in s. 311.09(1) and any

17  nongovernmental entity, relating to the sale, use, or lease of

18  land or of port facilities, and any financial records

19  submitted by any nongovernmental entity to such a deepwater

20  port for the purpose of the sale, use, or lease of land or of

21  port facilities, are confidential and exempt from s. 119.07(1)

22  and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution.  However, 30

23  days before any such proposal or counterproposal is considered

24  for approval by the governing body of such a deepwater port,

25  the proposal or counterproposal shall cease to be exempt.  If

26  no proposal or counterproposal is submitted to the governing

27  body for approval, such a proposal or counterproposal shall

28  cease to be exempt 90 days after the cessation of

29  negotiations.  This section is subject to the Open Government

30  Sunset Review Act of 1995 in accordance with s. 119.15, and

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    Florida Senate - 2002                                   SB 476
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  1  shall stand repealed on October 2, 2002, unless reviewed and

  2  saved from repeal through reenactment by the Legislature.

  3         Section 2.  This act shall take effect October 1, 2002.

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  6                          SENATE SUMMARY

  7    Abrogates the repeal and legislative review of an
      exemption from the public-records law which is provided
  8    for certain records held by deepwater ports concerning
      the sale, use, or lease of land or facilities.
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