Indiana Senate Bill 205 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 11 2010 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2010-01-11 - First reading: referred to Committee on Commerce and Public Policy & Interstate Cooperation
Pending: Senate Commerce, Public Policy & Interstate Cooperation Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Establishes an education fund to fund programs to train public officials and educate the public on the rights of the public and the responsibilities of public agencies under the public access laws. Allows the public access counselor to assess civil penalties against a public agency for violating the public records law. Requires any civil penalties collected to be deposited in the education fund. Allows the public access counselor to obtain an administrative subpoena to compel production of public records denied by a public agency if the public access counselor determines that the records were wrongfully withheld.

Penalties imposed by public access counselor.

Sen. Frank Mrvan [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-01-11		First reading: referred to Committee on Commerce and Public Policy & Interstate Cooperation
2010-01-11		Authored by Senator Mrvan

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.in.gov/apps/lsa/session/billwatch/billinfo?year=2010&session=1&request=getBill&doctype=SB&docno=0205
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2010/IN/IN0205.1.html