Relating to public records requests

Where it is now

1. ✓
   Done: IntroducedJanuary 23, 2025
2. ✓
   Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 23, 2025
3. ✓
   Done: House committeeFebruary 12, 2025
4. Next: Passes the House
5. Next: Senate committeeFunnel: by March 20, 2026
6. Next: Passes the Senate
7. Next: To the Governor
8. Next: Signed into law

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What’s in it

This bill provides that upon receipt of a public records request, the lawful custodian shall (1) promptly, as defined in the bill, acknowledge the request and provide the contact information of the lawful custodian’s authorized designee, (2) provide an approximate date for a response and an estimate of any reasonable fees associated with the request, and (3) inform the requester of any expected delay in production of the public record.

From the explanation printed with the bill as introduced, written by the Legislative Services Agency. Amendments adopted later aren’t reflected. Full bill text

House subcommittee

Named January 23, 2025. On January 30, 2025 it recommended passage.

• Rep. Taylor R. Collins REmail
• Rep. Thomas M. Jeneary REmail
• Rep. Ross Wilburn DEmail

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Iowa Code it changes

Amends§22.3§22.4

Read from the bill as introduced. Each links to every bill touching that chapter of the Iowa Code. How the Code works

Family tree

Where this legislation came from and where it went: earlier tries, the versions it moved through this Assembly, and later bills built on it.

Earlier and later bills are matched by wording or an identical title; check the text to be sure it’s the same idea.

Tried before

This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None became law, though one got through a chamber.

• HF 350 Relating to public records requests
  90th General Assembly · Passed House · same title
  Passed a chamber
• SF 202 Relating to public records requests
  90th General Assembly · Approved by committee · same title
  Cleared committee

Similar bills this General Assembly

• HF 2330 Relating to public records requests
  91st General Assembly · Passed House
  Nearly identical

Matched by the wording of each bill’s explanation, or an identical title. Companion bills and renumbered versions of this bill aren’t listed; they’re the same bill.