By Puente                                              H.B. No. 960
       74R4673 PAM-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to authorizing counties to sell county-developed computer
    1-3  software.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Chapter 270, Local Government Code, is amended by
    1-6  adding Section 270.007 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 270.007.  SALE OF COMPUTER SOFTWARE.  (a)  A county may
    1-8  sell or license by any method a computer software product or system
    1-9  developed by the county.  A county may sell or license by any
   1-10  method a computer software product or system developed for the
   1-11  county by a person under contract unless the contract specifically
   1-12  prohibits the county from selling or licensing the product or
   1-13  system.
   1-14        (b)  The county may market the software product or system or
   1-15  contract with a person to market the product or system.
   1-16        (c)  The provisions of the open records law, Chapter 552,
   1-17  Government Code, governing the cost of making copies of public
   1-18  records do not apply to a software product or system subject to
   1-19  this section.
   1-20        (d)  In this section, "computer software product or system"
   1-21  includes documentation of the product or system.
   1-22        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-23  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-24  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-1  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-2  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-3  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-4  passage, and it is so enacted.