Florida Senate - 2016                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 578
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                              LEGISLATIVE ACTION                        
                    Senate             .             House              
                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  01/19/2016           .                                
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       The Committee on Governmental Oversight and Accountability
       (Latvala) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment 
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    3         Delete lines 30 - 39
    4  and insert:
    5  necessity that proprietary confidential business information
    6  provided by a promoter to the Florida State Boxing Commission be
    7  made confidential and exempt from s. 119.07(1), Florida
    8  Statutes, and s. 24(a), Article I of the State Constitution. The
    9  disclosure of proprietary confidential business information
   10  could injure a promoter in the marketplace by giving the
   11  promoter’s competitors insights into the promoter’s financial
   12  status and business plan, thereby putting the promoter at a
   13  competitive disadvantage. The Legislature also finds that the
   14  harm to a promoter in disclosing proprietary confidential
   15  business information significantly outweighs any public benefit
   16  derived from the disclosure of such information. Therefore,
   17  extending the public records exemption to proprietary
   18  confidential business information provided by a promoter to the
   19  commission, no matter if the information is provided in a report
   20  or otherwise, ensures that the public records exemption is
   21  maintained and not undermined. For these reasons, the
   22  Legislature declares that