[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2220 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2220

 To modify the exemption for trade secrets and commercial or financial 
 information in the Freedom of Information Act, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 23, 2019

 Mr. Grassley (for himself, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Cornyn, and Mrs. Feinstein) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To modify the exemption for trade secrets and commercial or financial 
 information in the Freedom of Information Act, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Open and Responsive Government Act 
of 2019''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT.

    Section 552 of title 5, United States Code (commonly known as the 
``Freedom of Information Act'') is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b)(4), by inserting before the semicolon 
        at the end the following: ``, provided that the term 
        `confidential' means information that, if disclosed, would 
        likely cause substantial harm to the competitive position of 
        the person from whom the information was obtained''; and
            (2) in subsection (d)--
                    (A) by striking ``This section does not authorize 
                withholding of information'' and inserting ``This 
                section--
            ``(1) does not authorize the withholding of information'';
                    (B) in paragraph (1), as so designated, by striking 
                ``. This section is not authority to withhold 
                information from Congress.'' and inserting a semicolon; 
                and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(2) does not authorize the withholding of a portion of an 
        otherwise responsive record on the basis that the portion is 
        non-responsive; and
            ``(3) is not authority to withhold information from 
        Congress.''.
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