By:  Barrientos                                       S.B. No. 1157
       73R5153 MLR-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to location of sightings of threatened and endangered
    1-3  species.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Chapter 67, Parks and Wildlife Code, is amended
    1-6  by adding Section 67.006 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 67.006.  INFORMATION ON LOCATION EXEMPT FROM OPEN
    1-8  RECORDS LAW.  Information collected under this chapter that
    1-9  specifies the location of a sighting or occurrence of a species
   1-10  listed or proposed for listing as threatened under Chapter 68 of
   1-11  this code or under federal law is not public information and is
   1-12  excepted from disclosure under the open records law, Chapter 424,
   1-13  Acts of the 63rd Legislature, Regular Session, 1973 (Article
   1-14  6252-17a, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), except that a landowner
   1-15  has the right to obtain information about a sighting or occurrence
   1-16  on the landowner's property.
   1-17        SECTION 2.  Chapter 68, Parks and Wildlife Code, is amended
   1-18  by adding Section 68.022 to read as follows:
   1-19        Sec. 68.022.  INFORMATION ON LOCATION EXEMPT FROM OPEN
   1-20  RECORDS LAW.  Information that specifies the location of a sighting
   1-21  or occurrence of a species listed or proposed for listing as
   1-22  endangered under this chapter or under federal law is not public
   1-23  information and is excepted from disclosure under the open records
   1-24  law, Chapter 424, Acts of the 63rd Legislature, Regular Session,
    2-1  1973 (Article 6252-17a, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), except that
    2-2  a landowner has the right to obtain information about a sighting or
    2-3  occurrence on the landowner's property.
    2-4        SECTION 3.  Chapter 88, Parks and Wildlife Code, is amended
    2-5  by adding Section 88.013 to read as follows:
    2-6        Sec. 88.013.  INFORMATION ON LOCATION EXEMPT FROM OPEN
    2-7  RECORDS LAW.  Information that specifies the location of a sighting
    2-8  or occurrence of a species listed or proposed for listing as
    2-9  endangered, threatened, or protected under this chapter or under
   2-10  federal law is not public information and is excepted from
   2-11  disclosure under the open records law, Chapter 424, Acts of the
   2-12  63rd Legislature, Regular Session, 1973 (Article 6252-17a, Vernon's
   2-13  Texas Civil Statutes), except that a landowner has the right to
   2-14  obtain information about a sighting or occurrence on the
   2-15  landowner's property.
   2-16        SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   2-17        SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-18  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-19  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-20  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-21  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.