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Panel hears bill limiting public-record charges to actual costs and requiring interactive communication on large requests
Summary
A Judiciary Committee hearing reviewed House Bill 2134, which would limit public-record charges to the actual costs of furnishing records, require use of the lowest-cost category of staff for time charges, exclude employee benefits from time calculations and require interactive communication when requests exceed certain thresholds.
A Kansas Judiciary Committee hearing reviewed House Bill 2134, as amended in the House, which would tighten and clarify charges public agencies may impose under the Kansas Open Records Act for furnishing copies of public records.
The reviser’s bill brief summarized the bill’s core changes to K.S.A. 45-219. Under the amended proposal, an agency’s “actual cost” of furnishing records may include review and redaction but may not include incidental costs not attributable to producing the requested records. If staff time is charged, the agency must use in good faith the lowest-cost category of staff reasonably necessary to provide access; charges for staff time must be computed from the employee’s salary or hourly wage and must not include employee benefits.
The bill would…
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