Amend SB 1579 (senate committee report) as follows:
(1) In SECTION 7 of the bill, in added Section 552.406(a), Government Code (page 4, lines 5 and 6), strike "training of not less than four hours or more than six hours" and substitute "training of not less than 16 hours".
(2) Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumber subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____. Subchapter G, Chapter 552, Government Code, is amended by adding Section 552.310 to read as follows:
Sec. 552.310. CHARGES FOR BAD FAITH REQUEST. (a) The attorney general may impose a $1,000 charge to process a request for an attorney general decision made by a governmental body that the attorney general determines has made the request in bad faith.
(b) The attorney general may impose on a governmental body a $500 charge for each business day that occurs after the date the attorney general issues a written determination that the governmental body made a request for an attorney general decision in bad faith and before the date the governmental body provides to the requestor all information withheld in connection with the bad faith request.