By: Puente H.B. No. 1408 73R5492 DWS-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the sale or lease of computer software by certain 1-3 municipalities. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 253, Local Government Code, is amended by 1-6 adding Section 253.007 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 253.007. SALE OR LEASE OF COMPUTER SOFTWARE BY CERTAIN 1-8 MUNICIPALITIES. (a) This section applies only to a municipality 1-9 that has a population of more than 900,000. 1-10 (b) A municipality that independently or in conjunction with 1-11 any person develops automated information systems software may 1-12 contract with a person for the sale, lease, marketing, or other 1-13 distribution of the software. Any release of municipally developed 1-14 automated information systems software must be under a contract 1-15 that provides that the municipality will receive a royalty, license 1-16 right, or other appropriate compensation for developing the 1-17 software. The provisions of the open records law, Chapter 424, 1-18 Acts of the 63rd Legislature, Regular Session, 1973 (Article 1-19 6252-17a, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), governing the cost of 1-20 making copies of public records do not apply to automated 1-21 information systems software subject to a contract under this 1-22 section. 1-23 (c) In this section, "automated information systems 1-24 software" means any procedure or software that is designed, 2-1 operated, or maintained to collect, record, process, store, 2-2 retrieve, display, or transmit information. 2-3 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.