The meetings and deliberations of the commissioner and the Governor’s Office of Economic Development concerning loans from the disaster relief subfund are confidential and exempt from public disclosure, chapter 1-25, and chapter 1-27. Any documentary material or data made or received by the commissioner or the Governor’s Office of Economic Development for the purpose of acting upon an application for a loan from the disaster relief subfund or administering the loan, to the extent that such material or data consists of trade secrets or commercial or financial information regarding the operation of such business, are not considered public records, and are exempt from disclosure. Nothing in this section prohibits the disclosure of confidential information to the extent necessary to collect or recoup the loan or the disclosure of confidential information to the Board of Economic Development.

Source: SL 2020, ch 3, § 5, eff. Mar. 31, 2020.