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Senate Bill 1629 |
Senate Author: Wentworth |
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Effective: 9-1-09 |
House Sponsor: Rose |
Senate Bill 1629 amends the Government Code to specify that the exemption for certain requestors from the law relating to public information requests that require large amounts of employee or personnel time applies if the requestor is an individual who, for a substantial portion of the individual's livelihood or for substantial financial gain, gathers, compiles, prepares, collects, photographs, records, writes, edits, reports, investigates, processes, or publishes news or information for and is seeking the information for certain news media. The bill adds a newspaper of general circulation that is published on the Internet by a news medium engaged in the business of disseminating news or information to the general public and a magazine that is published at least once a week or on the Internet by a news medium engaged in the business of disseminating news or information to the general public to the news media to which the exemption applies and specifies that the exemption for an individual seeking the information for a radio or television station applies to an individual seeking such information for a radio or television broadcast station that holds a broadcast license for an assigned frequency issued by the Federal Communications Commission.