2018 House Bill 5733

Establish deadline on government fulfilling open records law requests

Introduced in the House

March 15, 2018

Introduced by Rep. Gary Glenn (R-98)

To prohibit a public body from taking more than 60 days to fulfill a Freedom of Information Act request, starting on the deadline for the public body’s initial response to a request. Specifically, the estimate of how long a request will take to fulfill could not exceed 60 days, and the requested documents must be delivered within that time..

Referred to the Committee on Oversight