cjl from the Sugar Labs committee raised the following concern:

In theory, engagement in the proposal drafting process might allow a
      conflicted person to "tip the scales", thereby justifying their
      exclusion.  However; in practice, it may be that the conflicted
      person is the only PLC member with the requisite technical expertise
      or situational awareness to draft a suitably detailed proposal.  Is
      it possible to acknowledge that the rest of the PLC should generally
      be capable of taking advantage of the conflicted persons special
      knowledge and contributions to the drafting without allowing the
      creation of "an uneven playing field".

This change allows the conflicted PLC Person to "disclose material facts
and to respond to questions" to the drafting process, but does not allow
them to do the drafting themselves.
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@ -298,7 +298,8 @@ or her family member), a PLC Person's employer and/or a fellow employee
of PLC Person's employer wish to be considered a candidate to fulfill
the funded software development contract, that PLC Person has a conflict
of interest and must recuse herself or himself from the proposal drafting
process and abstain from any vote to approve that proposal. All other
process, except to disclose material facts and to respond to questions,
and must abstain from any vote to approve that proposal. All other
procedures as outlined in <<Procedures-PLC-Persons,_Conflict Resolution Procedures for PLC Persons_>> shall still apply. The PLC must
document the PLC Person's abstention from the proposal drafting process
in the minutes of the next PLC meeting.