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HB1271: Freedom of Information Act; exemption for local franchises, exception.
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HOUSE BILL NO. 1271 AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE (Proposed by the House Committee on General Laws on February 5, 2008) (Patron Prior to Substitute--Delegate Ebbin) A BILL to amend and reenact § 2.2-3705.6 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the Freedom of Information Act; exemption for local franchises.
3. Confidential proprietary records, voluntarily provided by private business pursuant to a promise of confidentiality from the Department of Business Assistance, the Virginia Economic Development Partnership, the Virginia Tourism Authority, the Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission, a nonprofit, nonstock corporation created pursuant to § 2.2-2240.1, or local or regional industrial or economic development authorities or organizations, used by the Department, the Partnership, the Authority, or such entities for business, trade and tourism development; and memoranda, working papers or other records related to businesses that are considering locating or expanding in Virginia, prepared by such entities, where competition or bargaining is involved and where, if such records are made public, the financial interest of the governmental unit would be adversely affected.
13. Confidential Trade secrets as defined in the Uniform Trade Secrets Act (§ 59.1-336 et seq.) or confidential proprietary records that are not generally available to the public through regulatory disclosure or otherwise, provided by a franchisee a (a) bidder or applicant for a franchise or (b) franchisee under Article 1.2 (§ 15.2-2108.19 et seq.) of Chapter 21 (§ 15.2-2100 et seq.) of Title 15.2 to its the applicable franchising authority pursuant to a promise of confidentiality from the franchising authority that relates, to the extent the records relate to the bidder's, applicant's, or franchisee's potential financial capacity or provision of new services, adoption of new technologies or implementation of improvements, where such new services, technologies or improvements have not been implemented by the franchisee on a nonexperimental scale in the franchise area, and where, if such records were made public, the competitive advantage or financial interests of the franchisee would be adversely affected.
17. Records submitted as a grant application, or accompanying a grant application, to the Commonwealth Health Research Board pursuant to Chapter 22 (§ 23-277 et seq.) of Title 23 to the extent such records contain proprietary business or research-related information produced or collected by the applicant in the conduct of or as a result of study or research on medical, rehabilitative, scientific, technical, or scholarly issues, when such information has not been publicly released, published, copyrighted, or patented, if the disclosure of such information would be harmful to the competitive position of the applicant.
HOUSE BILL NO. 1271 Offered January 9, 2008 Prefiled January 9, 2008 A BILL to amend and reenact § 2.2-3705.6 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the Freedom of Information Act; exemption for local franchises.
13. Confidential Trade secrets as defined in the Uniform Trade Secrets Act (§ 59.1-336 et seq.) or confidential proprietary records that are that are not generally available to the public through regulatory disclosure or otherwise, provided by a franchisee a (i) bidder or applicant for a franchise or (ii) franchisee, under Article 1.2 (§ 15.2-2108.19 et seq.) of Chapter 21 (§ 15.2-2100 et seq.) of Title 15.2 to its the applicable franchising authority pursuant to a promise of confidentiality from the franchising authority that relates, to the extent the records relate to the bidder's, applicant's or franchisee's potential provision of new services, adoption of new technologies or implementation of improvements, where such new services, technologies or improvements have not been implemented by the franchisee on a nonexperimental scale in the franchise area, and where, if such records were made public, the competitive advantage or financial interests of the franchisee would be adversely affected. In order for trade secrets or confidential proprietary information to be excluded from the provisions of this chapter, the bidder, applicant, or franchisee shall (i) invoke such exclusion upon submission of the data or other materials for which protection from disclosure is sought, (ii) identify the data or other materials for which protection is sought, and (iii) state the reason why protection is necessary.
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