116 S2220 IS: Open and Responsive Government Act of 2019
U.S. Senate
2019-07-23
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This Act may be cited as the Open and Responsive Government Act of 2019
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2.Amendments to the Freedom of Information ActSection 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..