By Oakley H.B. No. 667 Substitute the following for H.B. No. 667: By Marchant C.S.H.B. No. 667 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to application requirements when information in the 1-3 personnel file of a state employee is inspected under the open 1-4 records law. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Section 4, Chapter 424, Acts of the 63rd 1-7 Legislature, Regular Session, 1973 (Article 6252-17a, Vernon's 1-8 Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows: 1-9 Sec. 4. Application for Public Information. (a) On 1-10 application for public information to the officer for public 1-11 records in a governmental body by any person, the officer for 1-12 public records shall promptly produce such information for 1-13 inspection or duplication, or both, in the offices of the 1-14 governmental body. If the information is in active use or in 1-15 storage and, therefore, not available at the time a person asks to 1-16 examine it, the officer for public records shall certify this fact 1-17 in writing to the applicant and set a date and hour within a 1-18 reasonable time when the record will be available for the exercise 1-19 of the right given by this Act. Nothing in this Act shall 1-20 authorize any person to remove original copies of public records 1-21 from the offices of any governmental body. 1-22 (b) A person requesting access to information in the 1-23 personnel file of an employee of a governmental body described by 1-24 Section 2(1)(A) of this Act must submit a written application to 2-1 the officer for public records of the governmental body. The 2-2 application must include the requestor's name and home or business 2-3 address, the name and home or business address of any person or 2-4 entity on whose behalf the request is made. 2-5 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 2-6 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-7 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.