By Dutton H.B. No. 1002 75R1915 JRD-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to access to certain law enforcement and prosecutorial 1-3 records under the open records law. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 552.108, Government Code, is amended to 1-6 read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 552.108. EXCEPTION: CERTAIN LAW ENFORCEMENT AND 1-8 PROSECUTORIAL INFORMATION. (a) Information held by a law 1-9 enforcement agency or prosecutor that deals with the detection, 1-10 investigation, or prosecution of crime is excepted from the 1-11 requirements of Section 552.021 if release of the information would 1-12 unduly interfere with the detection, investigation, or prosecution 1-13 of crime. 1-14 (b) An internal record or notation of a law enforcement 1-15 agency or prosecutor that is maintained for internal use in matters 1-16 relating to law enforcement or prosecution is excepted from the 1-17 requirements of Section 552.021 if release of the internal record 1-18 or notation would unduly interfere with law enforcement or 1-19 prosecution. 1-20 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act to Section 1-21 552.108, Government Code, applies to information, records, and 1-22 notations collected, made, assembled, or maintained on, before, or 1-23 after the effective date of this Act. 1-24 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-5 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-6 passage, and it is so enacted.