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FloridaSB 70262026Senate
OGSR/Trade Secret Held by an Agency
Sponsored By: Governmental Oversight and Accountability
Signed by Governor
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
12 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 0 costs, 12 mixed.
Agency trade secrets keep lasting protection
Florida agencies continue to keep trade secrets confidential when they meet the state's legal definition. The law removes the exemption's scheduled October 2, 2026, expiration. Businesses keep this protection, while the public remains unable to see protected records. Agencies can share them with other government bodies for official duties. Agency employees who release a trade secret in good faith are protected from civil and criminal liability.
Athletic match records lose specific protection
Trade secrets are no longer a listed category of protected business information for covered athletic match records. The list still includes business plans, ticket-sale numbers, gross receipts, and specified audit information. The change narrows this specific protection without making all match-related business records public.
Research records narrow protection; meetings stay private
The Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition and its subsidiaries lose an expressly listed records protection for actual trade secrets. Potential trade secrets, proprietary information, and other covered research materials remain protected. The law also allows meeting portions to close when they discuss trade secrets protected by the general agency exemption. Recordings of closed sessions remain exempt from public disclosure.
Tobacco settlement records lose specific protection
Trade secrets are no longer expressly listed as protected business information under the covered tobacco-settlement records rule. This applies to information owned or controlled by companies that signed the specified Florida settlement agreement. Information that meets the remaining definition can still qualify for protection.
Transportation research gets narrower secrecy protection
Florida removes the specific records exemption for trade secrets the transportation department obtains through research and development projects. Other exemptions can still protect those records. The department can secure, license, enforce, or sell patents, copyrights, and trademarks on its work. Payments go to the State Transportation Trust Fund for department activities, with an emphasis on research and development. The department must notify the Department of State when it secures or uses these rights.
Financial investigation records face narrower secrecy
After covered financial or consumer investigations and examinations end or become inactive, trade secrets lose a listed confidentiality ground. Other protections remain for active investigations and specified personal information. Covered financial records still protect the identities of complainants, customers, and account holders. Covered consumer investigation records also retain protection for confidential sources.
Funeral business records lose specific protection
The law removes a specific trade-secret records exemption for the financial services department and the funeral and cemetery board. People seeking these records gain potential access, while affected businesses lose that particular protection. Other records exemptions can still apply.
Narrower secrecy rules for antitrust records
Trade secrets are no longer expressly listed as protected business information in the covered antitrust-records definition. Information can still qualify under the remaining criteria, including protection against harm to a business's competitive edge. Trade-secret documents in covered health-care requests for an Attorney General no-action letter also lose the specific one-year records exemption. Other applicable exemptions can still limit public access.
Narrower secrecy rules for digital businesses
The law removes trade secrets as a named reason to protect business information in several consumer-records rules. These cover data breaches, online child safety, social media platforms, and data controllers and processors. Information can still qualify for protection when disclosure harms a business's competitive edge and the remaining legal requirements apply. These changes narrow specific secrecy rules, but do not guarantee that every affected record becomes public.
Medicaid rebate secrecy narrows for records
Covered Medicaid drug rebate amounts, percentages, manufacturer pricing, and supplemental rebate information remain confidential. Other trade secrets identified for negotiations are no longer covered by this specific records exemption. Meeting portions discussing those identified secrets remain exempt from public-meeting requirements. Records must identify exempt portions and participants. The law specifies no change to Medicaid eligibility, drug benefits, or household prescription costs.
Insurance model records lose specific protection
The law removes a specific records exemption for trade secrets used to build hurricane or flood loss models. It covers private-company information supplied to the model-review commission, insurance regulators, or the insurance consumer advocate. Meetings discussing those secrets remain closed, and recordings remain exempt from public disclosure. Other applicable records protections can still limit access. These models help guide catastrophe-fund premiums and insurer rate filings, but no household premium change is specified.
Workers’ compensation investigation secrecy narrows
After a workers’ compensation employer-compliance investigation ends or becomes inactive, trade secrets lose a listed confidentiality ground. Other protections remain for records that threaten another active investigation or reveal business or personal financial information. Protections also remain for personal identifying information, confidential sources, and investigative methods. The change narrows a records rule; it does not change workers’ compensation benefit amounts.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Governmental Oversight and Accountability
Affiliation unavailable
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 3/9/2026
House Floor Vote
Yes: 106 • No: 3
Senate vote • 2/19/2026
Senate Floor Vote
Yes: 33 • No: 3
Senate vote • 2/3/2026
Rules Vote
Yes: 20 • No: 4
Senate vote • 1/20/2026
Governmental Oversight and Accountability Vote
Yes: 9 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Chapter No. 2026-52
4/24/2026Approved by Governor
4/23/2026Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
4/21/2026Ordered enrolled
3/17/2026SenatePassed; YEAS 106, NAYS 3
3/9/2026HouseRead 3rd time
3/9/2026HouseAdded to Third Reading Calendar
3/9/2026HouseRead 2nd time
3/9/2026House1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
3/5/2026HouseBill added to Special Order Calendar (3/9/2026)
3/5/2026HouseBill referred to House Calendar
3/5/2026HouseIn Messages
2/19/2026HouseImmediately certified -SJ 356
2/19/2026SenatePassed; YEAS 33 NAYS 3 -SJ 340
2/19/2026SenateRead 3rd time -SJ 340
2/19/2026SenateRead 2nd time -SJ 340
2/19/2026SenateRetained on Special Order Calendar -SJ 299
2/11/2026SenatePlaced on Special Order Calendar, 02/11/26
2/9/2026SenatePlaced on Calendar, on 2nd reading
2/3/2026SenateFavorable by- Rules; YEAS 20 NAYS 4
2/3/2026SenateOn Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/03/26, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
1/29/2026SenateIntroduced
1/29/2026SenateReferred to Rules
1/22/2026SenateFiled
1/21/2026SenateSubmitted as Committee Bill and Reported Favorably by Governmental Oversight and Accountability; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
1/20/2026Senate
Bill Text
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4/23/2026
Filed
1/21/2026
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1/15/2026