Illinois General Assembly - Full Text of SB0226

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
SB0226

Introduced 1/22/2025, by Sen. Donald P. DeWitte

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

5 ILCS 140/5

from Ch. 116, par. 205

Amends the Freedom of Information Act. Provides that a public body shall include in its list of records available under the Act the identification and a plain-text description of each of the types or categories of information of each field of each database of the public body. Provides that the public body shall provide a sufficient description of the structures of all databases under the control of the public body to allow a requester to request the public body to perform specific database queries.

A BILL FOR

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 5 as follows:

(5 ILCS 140/5) (from Ch. 116, par. 205)

Sec. 5. As to public records prepared or received after the effective date of this Act, each public body shall maintain and make available for inspection and copying a reasonably current list of all types or categories of records under its control. The list shall be reasonably detailed in order to aid persons in obtaining access to public records pursuant to this Act and shall include the identification and a plain-text description of each of the types or categories of information of each field of each database of the public body. Each public body shall furnish upon request a description of the manner in which public records stored by means of electronic data processing may be obtained in a form comprehensible to persons lacking knowledge of computer language or printout format and shall provide a sufficient description of the structures of all databases under the control of the public body to allow a requester to request the public body to perform specific database queries.

(Source: P.A. 83-1013.)