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[ Introduced ][ House Amendment 001 ]

90_HB1776eng

      5 ILCS 140/3.5 new
      5 ILCS 140/8              from Ch. 116, par. 208
          Amends the Freedom of Information  Act.    Provides  that
      public bodies shall act with reasonable dispatch to store and
      make  available  public records in electronic form.  Provides
      that a public body shall indicate which  portions  of  public
      records provided in electronic form have been deleted and the
      extent of those deletions.
                                                     LRB9005136MWpc
HB1776 Engrossed                               LRB9005136MWpc
 1        AN ACT concerning public records.
 2        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:
 4        Section 5.  The Freedom of Information Act is amended  by
 5    changing Section 8 and adding Section 3.5 as follows:
 6        (5 ILCS 140/3.5 new)
 7        Sec.   3.5.  Public   access   to   electronically-stored
 8    records.     In  making  any  public records available to any
 9    person under this Act, the  public  body  shall  provide  the
10    record  in  any form or format requested by the person if the
11    public record is stored or is  readily  reproducible  by  the
12    public body in that form or format.
13        (5 ILCS 140/8) (from Ch. 116, par. 208)
14        Sec.  8.   If  any  public  record  that  is  exempt from
15    disclosure under Section 7 of this Act contains any  material
16    which  is  not  exempt,  the  public  body  shall  delete the
17    information  which  is  exempt   and   make   the   remaining
18    information  available for inspection and copying.  Where the
19    deletions are made from public records provided in electronic
20    form, the public body shall indicate which  portions  of  the
21    records have been deleted and the extent of those deletions.
22    (Source: P.A. 85-1357.)
23        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
24    becoming law.

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