1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to excepting certain legislative documents from required

 1-3     disclosure under the open records law.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 552.106, Government Code, is amended to

 1-6     read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 552.106.  EXCEPTION: CERTAIN LEGISLATIVE DOCUMENTS.  (a)

 1-8     A draft or working paper involved in the preparation of  proposed

 1-9     legislation is excepted from the requirements of Section 552.021.

1-10           (b)  An internal bill analysis or working paper prepared by

1-11     the governor's office for the purpose of evaluating proposed

1-12     legislation is excepted from the requirements of Section 552.021.

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.

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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 3157 was passed by the House on May

         16, 1997, by a non-record vote; that the House refused to concur in

         Senate amendments to H.B. No. 3157 on May 28, 1997, and requested

         the appointment of a conference committee to consider the

         differences between the two houses; and that the House adopted the

         conference committee report on H.B. No. 3157 on June 1, 1997, by

         the following vote:  Yeas 143, Nays 0, 1 present, not voting.

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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 3157 was passed by the Senate, with

         amendments, on May 23, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 26, Nays

         0; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference

         committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and

         that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No.

         3157 on June 1, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

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                                                 Secretary of the Senate

         APPROVED:  _____________________

                            Date

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                          Governor