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Public Records and Meetings/Competitive Solicitations; Revising the applicability of public records and public meetings exemptions, respectively, relating to competitive solicitations; providing an exemption from public records requirements for sealed bids, proposals, or replies received and publicly announced by the Department of Transportation pursuant to competitive solicitations for certain contracts; providing an exemption from public meetings requirements for portions of meetings at which negotiations with, oral presentations of, or questions answered by a vendor taking part in a competitive solicitation of the department occur and portions of team meetings at which negotiation strategies are discussed; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemptions; providing statements of public necessity, etc.