Illinois Senate Bill 2926 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: Failed on January 13 2015 - 100% progression
Action: 2015-01-13 - Session Sine Die
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Amends the Freedom of Information Act. Provides that a public body is not required to copy and make available for public inspection a public record that is published on the public body's website if the public body's Freedom of Information officer certifies that the online record is a true and accurate copy of the original record maintained by the public body. Provides that the Freedom of Information officer shall notify the person requesting the public record that it is available online. Provides that if the person requesting the public record is unable to access the record online, the public body is then required to copy and make available the public record. Effective immediately.

FOIA-RECORDS ON WEBSITE

Sen. Daniel Biss [D]

Sen. Pat McGuire [D]

Sen. Karen McConnaughay [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-01-13	Senate	Session Sine Die
2014-03-28	Senate	Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments
2014-02-27	Senate	Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Karen McConnaughay
2014-02-27	Senate	To Subcommittee on Governmental Operations
2014-02-14	Senate	Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Pat McGuire
2014-02-11	Senate	Assigned to Executive
2014-02-04	Senate	Referred to Assignments
2014-02-04	Senate	First Reading
2014-02-04	Senate	Filed with Secretary by Sen. Daniel Biss

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
5	140	2.25	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=2926&GAID=12&DocTypeID=SB&SessionID=85&GA=98
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/98/SB/09800SB2926.htm