By Woolley                                       H.B. No. 339

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to county authority to impose a charge for access to the

 1-3     county's computerized electronic information system.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 552.272, Government Code, is amended by

 1-6     adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:

 1-7           (e)  The provisions of this section that prohibit a

 1-8     governmental entity from imposing a charge for access to

 1-9     information that exists in an electronic medium do not apply to the

1-10     commissioners court of a county that sets a fee as authorized by

1-11     Section 191.008, Local Government Code, for use of a computerized

1-12     electronic information system.

1-13           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-14     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-15     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-16     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-17     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-18     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-19     passage, and it is so enacted.