Bill Text: IL SB3076 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Freedom of Information Act. Provides that a public body shall include in its list of records available under the Act the identification and a plain-text description of each of the types or categories of information of each field of each database of the public body. Provides that the public body shall provide a sufficient description of the structures of all databases under the control of the public body to allow a requester to request the public body to perform specific database queries.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Failed) 2025-01-07 - Session Sine Die [SB3076 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SB3076-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB3076 Introduced 2/2/2024, by Sen. Donald P. DeWitte SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
5 ILCS 140/5 from Ch. 116, par. 205
Amends the Freedom of Information Act. Provides that a public body shall include in its list of records available under the Act the identification and a plain-text description of each of the types or categories of information of each field of each database of the public body. Provides that the public body shall provide a sufficient description of the structures of all databases under the control of the public body to allow a requester to request the public body to perform specific database queries.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Freedom of Information Act is amended by
changing Section 5 as follows:
(5 ILCS 140/5) (from Ch. 116, par. 205)
Sec. 5. As to public records prepared or received after
the effective date of this Act, each public body shall
maintain and make available for inspection and copying a
reasonably current list of all types or categories of records
under its control. The list shall be reasonably detailed in
order to aid persons in obtaining access to public records
pursuant to this Act and shall include the identification and
a plain-text description of each of the types or categories of
information of each field of each database of the public body.
Each public body shall furnish upon request a description of
the manner in which public records stored by means of
electronic data processing may be obtained in a form
comprehensible to persons lacking knowledge of computer
language or printout format and shall provide a sufficient
description of the structures of all databases under the
control of the public body to allow a requester to request the
public body to perform specific database queries.

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