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      By Danburg                                      H.B. No. 2813

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the definition of governmental body.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Chapter 552, Section 552.003, Government Code, is

 1-5     amended to read as follows:

 1-6           Sec. 552.003.  Definitions.  In this chapter:

 1-7                 (1)  "Governmental body":

 1-8                       (A)  means:

 1-9                             (i)  a board, commission, department,

1-10     committee, institution, agency, or office that is within or is

1-11     created by the executive or legislative branch of state government

1-12     and that is directed by one or more elected or appointed members;

1-13                             (ii)  a county commissioners court in the

1-14     state;

1-15                             (iii)  a municipal governing body in the

1-16     state;

1-17                             (iv)  a deliberative body that has

1-18     rulemaking or quasi-judicial power and that is classified as a

1-19     department, agency, or political subdivision of a county or

1-20     municipality;

1-21                             (v)  a school district board of trustees;

1-22                             (vi)  a county board of school trustees;

1-23                             (vii)  a county board of education;

1-24                             (viii)  a charter school;

 2-1                             (ix) [(viii)]  the governing board of a

 2-2     special district;

 2-3                             (x) [(ix)]  the governing body of a

 2-4     nonprofit corporation organized under Chapter 76, Acts of the 43rd

 2-5     Legislature, 1st Called Session, 1933 (Article 1434a, Vernon's

 2-6     Texas Civil Statutes), that provides a water supply or wastewater

 2-7     service, or both, and is exempt from ad valorem taxation under

 2-8     Section 11.30, Tax Code; and

 2-9                             (xi) [(x)]  the part, section, or portion

2-10     of an organization, corporation, commission, committee,

2-11     institution, or agency that spends or that is supported in whole or

2-12     in part by public funds; and

2-13                       (B)  does not include the judiciary.

2-14                 (2)  "Manipulation" means the process of modifying,

2-15     reordering, or decoding of information with human intervention.

2-16                 (3)  "Processing" means the execution of a sequence of

2-17     coded instructions by a computer producing a result.

2-18                 (4)  "Programming" means the process of producing a

2-19     sequence of coded instructions that can be executed by a computer.

2-20                 (5)  "Public funds" means funds of the state or of a

2-21     governmental subdivision of the state.

2-22                 (6)  "Requestor" means a person who submits a request

2-23     to a governmental body for inspection or copies of public

2-24     information.

2-25           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

2-26           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

2-27     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

2-28     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-29     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-30     days in each house be suspended and this rule is hereby suspended.