Bill Text: IL SB1582 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Freedom of Information Act. Provides that each public body shall designate one or more public officials or employees of the public body (instead of "one or more officials or employees") to act as its Freedom of Information officer or officers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-09 - Session Sine Die [SB1582 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-SB1582-Introduced.html

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 SB1582 Introduced 2/9/2017, by Sen. Michael Connelly SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
5 ILCS 140/3.5
Amends the Freedom of Information Act. Provides that each public body shall designate one or more public officials or employees of the public body (instead of "one or more officials or employees") to act as its Freedom of Information officer or officers.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Freedom of Information Act is amended by
changing Section 3.5 as follows:
(5 ILCS 140/3.5)
Sec. 3.5. Freedom of Information officers.
(a) Each public body shall designate one or more public
officials or employees of the public body to act as its Freedom
of Information officer or officers. Except in instances when
records are furnished immediately, Freedom of Information
officers, or their designees, shall receive requests submitted
to the public body under this Act, ensure that the public body
responds to requests in a timely fashion, and issue responses
under this Act. Freedom of Information officers shall develop a
list of documents or categories of records that the public body
shall immediately disclose upon request.
Upon receiving a request for a public record, the Freedom
of Information officer shall:
(1) note the date the public body receives the written
request;
(2) compute the day on which the period for response
will expire and make a notation of that date on the written

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request;
(3) maintain an electronic or paper copy of a written
request, including all documents submitted with the
request until the request has been complied with or denied;
and
(4) create a file for the retention of the original
request, a copy of the response, a record of written
communications with the requester, and a copy of other
communications.
(b) All Freedom of Information officers shall, within 6
months after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the
96th General Assembly, successfully complete an electronic
training curriculum to be developed by the Public Access
Counselor and thereafter successfully complete an annual
training program. Thereafter, whenever a new Freedom of
Information officer is designated by a public body, that person
shall successfully complete the electronic training curriculum
within 30 days after assuming the position. Successful
completion of the required training curriculum within the
periods provided shall be a prerequisite to continue serving as
a Freedom of Information officer.
(Source: P.A. 96-542, eff. 1-1-10.)