Bill Text: MS HB1090 | 2012 | Regular Session | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Public records; revise fees charged for providing.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2012-03-13 - Died In Committee [HB1090 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2012-HB1090-Comm_Sub.html
2012 Regular Session
To: Judiciary A; Ways and Means
By: Representative Baker
House Bill 1090
(COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE)
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 25-61-7, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REVISE THE FEES FOR COSTS INCIDENT TO PROVIDING PUBLIC RECORDS; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 25-61-7, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
25-61-7. (1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, each public body may establish and collect fees in amounts not to exceed Fifty Cents ($0.50) per page to reimburse to the public body for duplicating copies of public records. Additionally the public body may charge for staff time for searching, reviewing public records in relation to a public records request and responding to the same; however, any staff time included in the cost to search and review such records and to respond to such request shall be at the pay scale of the lowest level employee competent to search, review and assemble the response to the request. Such fees shall be collected by the public body in advance of complying with the request. The fees in this section shall not apply to medical records.
(2) A public body may establish a standard fee scale to reimburse it for the costs of creating, acquiring and maintaining a geographic information system or multipurpose cadastre as authorized and defined under Section 25-61-1 et seq., or any other electronically accessible data. Such fees must be reasonably related to the cost of creating, acquiring and maintaining the geographic information system, multipurpose cadastre or other electronically accessible data, for the data or information contained therein or taken therefrom and for any records, papers, accounts, maps, photographs, films, cards, tapes, recordings or other materials, data or information relating thereto, whether in printed, digital or other format. In determining the fees or charges under this subsection, the public body may consider the type of information requested, the purpose or purposes for which the information has been requested and the commercial value of the information.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2012.
