Provide that legislative bill drafting files are public records

HB 272 aimed to designate legislative bill drafting files as public records, allowing citizens to request and view these documents. These files would include draft versions of bills, research, legal analyses, and communications between legislators and bill drafters. While making these files public, the bill clarified that a legislator's constitutional privilege protects them from prosecution for their legislative acts, meaning file contents could not be used as evidence against them in court. However, this privilege would not prevent the disclosure of the bill drafting files themselves, though private writings or communications with personal staff could remain protected unless voluntarily shared.