2025-2026 Regular SessionIllinois Legislature

SB0226: FOIA-LIST OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS

Legislative Summary

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.

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Bill History

1/22/2025
Filed with Secretary by Sen. Donald P. DeWitte
Senate
1/22/2025
First Reading
Senate
1/22/2025
Referred to Assignments
Senate
1/28/2025
Assigned to Executive
Senate
2/19/2025
To Ethics
Senate
3/21/2025
Rule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As April 11, 2025
Senate
4/11/2025
Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments
Senate

Status Information

Current Status
Introduced(1/22/2025)
Chamber
Senate
Committee
Assignments(Senate)

Sponsors

Republican: 1

Documents

Introduced
Bill Text1/22/20256.9 KB