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House Bill 3107 |
House Author: Ashby |
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Effective: 9-1-17 |
Senate Sponsor: Nichols |
House Bill 3107 amends Government Code provisions relating to state public information law to allow the treatment of all requests received in one calendar day from an individual as a single request for purposes of calculating costs but prohibits a governmental body from combining multiple requests from separate individuals who submit requests on behalf of an organization. The bill establishes that a request is considered to have been withdrawn if the requestor fails to inspect or duplicate the public information in the offices of the governmental body before a certain time after the information is made available or fails to pay any applicable charges. The bill revises provisions relating to limits on the amount of time that personnel of a governing body are required to spend on requests that require large amounts of employee or personnel time. The bill entitles a complainant seeking a declaratory judgment or injunctive relief under the public information law to file a complaint with the attorney general if the district or county attorney with whom the person originally filed the complaint has not timely brought an action.