Bills · 2013-2014 Regular Session
Relating to: fees charged for access to public records. (FE)
- Introduced, stopped here
- Passes Assembly, not reached
- Passes Senate, not reached
- Governor signs, not reached
- Law, not reached
Unfamiliar terms? Glossary
What this bill does
Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau
Under the public records law, an authority may charge certain fees to a person
who requests a record to cover costs associated with responding to the records
request. In
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel v. City of Milwaukee
, 2012 WI 65, 341 Wis.
2d 607, 815 N.W.2d 367, the Wisconsin Supreme Court held that the public records
law does not permit an authority to charge fees for the cost of redacting confidential
information from records. This bill amends the public records law to provide that an
authority may impose a fee upon a requester for the actual, necessary, and direct cost
of deleting, redacting, or separating information that is not subject to disclosure from
a record.
What it would cost
Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs
Sponsors
Full history
- Feb 15, 2013 · Assembly
Introduced by Representatives Bies, Ballweg, Brooks, Kapenga, T. Larson, Schraa, Tauchen, Tittl and Zepnick
- Feb 15, 2013 · Assembly
Read first time and referred to Committee on Government Operations and State Licensing
- Feb 26, 2013 · Assembly
Fiscal estimate received
- Feb 27, 2013 · Assembly
Public hearing held
- Oct 17, 2013 · Assembly
Withdrawn from committee on Government Operations and State Licensing and referred to committee on State Affairs and Government Operations pursuant to Assembly Resolution 19
- Apr 8, 2014 · Assembly
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1