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House Amendment 5396

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  1  1    Amend House File 2407 as follows:
  1  2    #1.  Page 1, by inserting after line 5, the
  1  3 following:
  1  4    "11A.  To establish policies for the distribution
  1  5 of information which is stored by the general assembly
  1  6 in an electronic format, including the contents of
  1  7 statutes or rules, other than electronic publications
  1  8 as provided in section 7A.22.  The legislative council
  1  9 shall establish payment rates that encourage the
  1 10 distribution of such information to the public,
  1 11 including private vendors reselling that information.
  1 12 The legislative council shall not establish a price
  1 13 that attempts to recover more than is attributable to
  1 14 costs related to producing and delivering the
  1 15 information."
  1 16    #2.  Page 1, line 6, by striking the figure:
  1 17 "11A." and inserting the following:  "11B."
  1 18    #3.  By striking page 3, line 24 through page 4,
  1 19 line 30, and inserting the following:
  1 20    "Sec.    .  Section 7A.22, subsection 3, Code 1995,
  1 21 is amended by striking the subsection.
  1 22    Sec.    .  Section 7A.22, Code 1995, is amended by
  1 23 adding the following new unnumbered paragraph:
  1 24    NEW UNNUMBERED PARAGRAPH.  The legislative council
  1 25 may establish policies for producing, editing,
  1 26 distributing, and pricing electronic publications
  1 27 which contain information stored by the general
  1 28 assembly in an electronic format, including
  1 29 information contained in publications described in
  1 30 this section together with programming not originally
  1 31 part of the stored information.  As part of those
  1 32 policies, the council may provide for electronic
  1 33 publications containing specialized search and
  1 34 retrieval functions, and shall ensure the widest
  1 35 possible dissemination of versions of electronic
  1 36 publications containing search and retrieval functions
  1 37 at the lowest price practicable which shall not be
  1 38 more than costs attributable to producing, editing,
  1 39 and disseminating those versions."
  1 40    #4.  Page 6, by striking lines 8 and 9 and
  1 41 inserting the following:  "be more than established
  1 42 pursuant to section 7A.22 for the same publication.
  1 43 For the Iowa".
  1 44    #5.  Page 6, line 17, by inserting after the word
  1 45 "ON" the following:  "FREE".
  1 46    #6.  Page 6, by striking lines 24 through 35 and
  1 47 inserting the following:  "bureau.  In order to
  1 48 distribute these legal publications in the most
  1 49 efficient manner possible to persons entitled to
  1 50 receive these publications pursuant to section 18.97,
  2  1 the superintendent of printing and the legislative
  2  2 council may establish policies requiring payment from
  2  3 such persons.  The payment amount shall not be more
  2  4 than established pursuant to section 7A.22 for the
  2  5 same publication."
  2  6    #7.  Page 8, line 22, by inserting after the word
  2  7 "software." the following:  "A public record shall not
  2  8 be withheld from the public because it is combined
  2  9 with data processing software.  A government body
  2 10 shall not acquire any electronic data processing
  2 11 system for the storage, manipulation, or retrieval of
  2 12 public records that would impair the government body's
  2 13 ability to permit the examination of a public record
  2 14 and the copying of a public record in either written
  2 15 or electronic form.  If it is necessary to separate a
  2 16 public record from data processing software in order
  2 17 to permit the examination or copying of the public
  2 18 record, the government body shall bear the cost of
  2 19 separation of the public record from the data
  2 20 processing software.  The electronic public record
  2 21 shall be made available in a format useable with
  2 22 commonly available data processing or data base
  2 23 management software.  The cost chargeable to a person
  2 24 receiving a public record separated from data
  2 25 processing software under this subsection shall not be
  2 26 in excess of the charge under this chapter unless the
  2 27 person receiving the public record requests that the
  2 28 public record be specially processed."
  2 29    #8.  Page 9, line 8, by striking the figure "2.42"
  2 30 and inserting the following:  "7A.22".  
  2 31 
  2 32 
  2 33                              
  2 34 DRAKE of Pottawattamie
  2 35 
  2 36 
  2 37                               
  2 38 TAYLOR of Linn
  2 39 HF 2407.302 76
  2 40 da/cf
     

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