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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.