By Romo                                               H.B. No. 1012
       74R2966 JRD-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the availability under the open records law of
    1-3  information submitted to a governmental entity by a potential
    1-4  vendor.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Section 552.110, Government Code, is amended to
    1-7  read as follows:
    1-8        Sec. 552.110.  EXCEPTION:  TRADE SECRETS, COMMERCIAL
    1-9  INFORMATION, OR FINANCIAL INFORMATION; INFORMATION SUBMITTED BY
   1-10  POTENTIAL VENDOR.  (a)  A trade secret or commercial or financial
   1-11  information obtained from a person and privileged or confidential
   1-12  by statute or judicial decision is excepted from the requirements
   1-13  of Section 552.021.
   1-14        (b)  Information submitted by a potential vendor to a
   1-15  governmental entity that is related to a proposed contractual
   1-16  arrangement or related to an application for placement on a bidders
   1-17  list or for certification as a historically underutilized or
   1-18  disadvantaged business is excepted from the requirements of Section
   1-19  552.021.
   1-20        SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies to
   1-21  information acquired by a governmental entity before, on, or after
   1-22  the effective date of this Act.
   1-23        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-24  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-1  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-2  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-3  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-4  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-5  passage, and it is so enacted.