TO: | Honorable Jeff Wentworth, Chair, Senate Committee on Open Government, Select |
FROM: | John S O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
IN RE: | SB677 by Gallegos (Relating to the enforcement of the public information law; providing for the imposition of a civil penalty.), As Introduced |
The bill would amend Government Code to add a provision allowing a civil penalty to be brought against a governmental body that violates the Public Information Act. The penalty would not exceed $1,000 for each violation, and each day the violation continues would be considered a separate violation. The bill would require a civil penalty collected under the bill's provisions to be deposited to the credit of the general revenue fund.
The Office of the Attorney General reports that any legal work resulting from the passage of the bill could be reasonably absorbed within current resources.
The bill would take effect September 1, 2011.
Source Agencies: | 302 Office of the Attorney General, 405 Department of Public Safety, 529 Health and Human Services Commission
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LBB Staff: | JOB, JT, JI, KY, KKR
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