Railroad Investigative Report Confidentiality

Transportation Legislation Review Committee. Current law requires investigative reports of railroads made for the public utilities commission to be kept confidential. The bill repeals this requirement and replaces it with a grant of rule-making authority to make ongoing investigations and security information confidential. The confidentiality rules must not make final reports of investigations confidential and must require the timely release of information if public knowledge of the information would protect the public safety, health, or welfare.
(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)