Bills Assigned to Keyword - FOIA (5)

Date of Last Recorded Action: 5/9/2024


H 3163 Changes the current Freedom of Information Act law 02.26.2013 The House Judiciary committee gave this bill a favorable report with amendments. The amendments remove the FOIA exemption for legislators. It also allows a public body to charge for electronic records if they are printed or copied.The amendment also provides that if a deposit is required for the public record, the time to provide the record does not start until the deposit has been paid.02.19.2013 The House Judiciary committee adjourned debate on this bill.02.07.2013 The House Judiciary Special Laws subcommittee gave this bill a favorable report with amendments. The amendments do the following:Allow the public body to establish and collect reasonable fees not to exceed the actual cost of the search, retrieval, and redaction of records and the public body must develop a fee schedule to be posted on line  The fee for the search, retrieval, or redaction of records shall not exceed the prorated hourly salary of the lowest paid employee who performs the requestThe fee schedule must list the salary level of the representative of the public body designated to respond to requests and the hourly rate for the search, retrieval, or redaction of records based on the designated employee's salary levelThe public body has ten days (excepting Saturdays, Sundays, and legal public holidays) to respond to requestCreates the Office of Freedom of Information Act Review and allows disputes between public body and person making FOIA request to be heard in the Office of Freedom of Information Act Review. This office is under the Administrative Law Court.01.31.2013 The House Judiciary Special Laws subcommittee carried this bill over until next week.01.17.2013 The House Judiciary Special Laws subcommittee carried this bill over until next week.Summary of the bill as introduced: Changes the time period to answer a request, the cost to answer the request, and increases fines for violation.
Sponsor: Bill Taylor House Com: Judy Senate Com:
Status: House - Recommitted to Committee on Judiciary Status Date: 3/20/2013
Keywords: FOIA
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H 3427 Allows posting on a website instead of in the newspaperSummary of the bill as introduced: Authorizes a county to post certain notices required by law to the county's website instead of printing in the newspaper.
Sponsor: Wendy K. Nanney House Com: Senate Com:
Status: House - Committed to Committee on Judiciary Status Date: 1/30/2013
Keywords: FOIA
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H 3641 Outlines legislative exemptions in FOIASummary of the bill as introduced: Clarifies that legislative exemptions in FOIA apply only to work pertaining to the development, drafting or evaluation of legislative that has not been introduced or an amendment that has not been proposed to a legislative committee.
Sponsor: Wm. Weston J. Newton House Com: Judy Senate Com:
Status: House - Referred to Committee on Judiciary Status Date: 2/27/2013
Keywords: FOIA
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H 4094 Adds exemptions to the Freedom of Information Act03.20.2014 The House Judiciary Constitutional Laws subcommittee carried this bill over.Summary of the bill as introduced: Adds exemptions from FOIA for disclosing a residential address, birth date, social security number, telephone number, photograph, name of a spouse or name of a child or any active or former employee or member of the judiciary, law enforcement officer, director or employee of certain state agencies, guardian ad litem, prosecutor, public defender or appellate defender in the state.
Sponsor: Samuel Rivers, Jr. House Com: Judy Senate Com:
Status: House - Referred to Committee on Judiciary Status Date: 5/2/2013
Keywords: FOIA
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H 4947 Changes the defintion of a public body under FOIASummary of the bill as introduced: Changes the definition of a public body under the Freedom of Information Act to include any entity that is by law permitted to offer its employees the opportunity to participate in either the state health and dental insurance plan or in one of the state retirement systems.
Sponsor: Todd K. Atwater House Com: Senate Com:
Status: House - Referred to Committee on Judiciary Status Date: 3/20/2014
Keywords: FOIA
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Municipal Association of South Carolina
1411 Gervais St., PO Box 12109, Columbia, SC 29211
Phone: 803.799.9574, Fax: 803.933.1299, mail@masc.sc