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Committee amends public-data bill to remove population caps and adopts amendment addressing small-city staff roles; laid over
Summary
House File 19,117 (public data changes) was amended to delete population caps so the public-data provisions apply to cities and counties regardless of size; a clarifying A1 amendment passed to address small-city staffing equivalencies. The bill was laid over for possible inclusion.
The committee considered House File 19,117, a bill that adjusts which municipal employees’ investigation records become public by removing population thresholds that previously exempted smaller jurisdictions.
Representative Anderson explained the bill removes population cutoffs (such as city population 7,500 or county population 5,000) and makes the public-data rules apply irrespective of…
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