Amend HB 2906 by adding the following appropriately numbered
SECTIONS to the bill and renumbering existing SECTIONS of the bill
appropriately:
      SECTION _____.  Section 321.001, Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
      Sec. 321.001.  DEFINITIONS.  In this chapter:
            (1)  "Audit working paper" means all documentary and
other information prepared or maintained in conducting an audit or
investigation, including all intra-agency and interagency
communications relating to an audit or investigation and all draft
reports or portions thereof.
            (2)  "Committee" means the legislative audit committee.
            (3)<2>  "Department" includes every state department,
agency, board, bureau, institution, or commission.
      SECTION _____.  Section 321.019(a), Government Code, is
amended to read as follows:
      Sec. 321.019.  INTERFERENCE WITH AUDIT OR INVESTIGATION
<EXAMINATION OF RECORDS>.  (a)  An officer or employee of this
state or of an entity subject to audit or investigation by the
state auditor <a governmental unit of the state> commits an offense
if the officer or employee:
      (1)  refuses to immediately permit the State Auditor to
examine or have access to the books, accounts, reports, vouchers,
papers, documents, or electronic data to which the State Auditor is
entitled under Section 321.013(e) or other law, or to the cash
drawer, or cash from the officer's or employee's department;
      (2)  interferes with an examination by the State Auditor; or
      (3)  refuses to make a report required by this chapter.
      (b)  An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor<,
punishable by a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $1,000, by
imprisonment in the county jail for not less than one month nor
more than one year, or by both>.
      SECTION _____.  Section 552.116, Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
      Sec. 552.116.  EXCEPTION:  AUDIT <STATE AUDITOR> WORKING
PAPERS.  An audit working paper or draft audit report of the state
auditor or of another state agency or institution of higher
education as defined by Section 61.003, Education Code, is excepted
from the requirements of Section 552.021.