Florida Senate - 2009 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Bill No. CS for SB 2126 Barcode 968504 LEGISLATIVE ACTION Senate . House Comm: RCS . 04/16/2009 . . . . ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— The Committee on Governmental Oversight and Accountability (King) recommended the following: 1 Senate Amendment 2 3 Delete lines 46 - 60 4 and insert: 5 6 necessity that proprietary confidential business information 7 obtained from a communications company or broadband company by 8 the Department of Management Services, or any person or agency 9 authorized by the department, be held confidential and exempt 10 from public-records requirements. Disclosure of proprietary 11 confidential business information would adversely affect the 12 business interests of communications and broadband companies 13 providing such information by harming them in the marketplace 14 and compromising the security of the communications network. 15 Further, disclosure of such proprietary confidential business 16 information would impair competition in the communications 17 industry. Competitors can use such information to impede full 18 and fair competition in the communications marketplace to the 19 disadvantage of the consumers of communications services. Thus, 20 it is the finding of the Legislature that proprietary 21 confidential business information obtained