1-1     By:  Hilbert (Senate Sponsor - Wentworth)             H.B. No. 3157

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 16, 1997;

 1-3     May 16, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on State

 1-4     Affairs; May 18, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:

 1-5     Yeas 12, Nays 0; May 18, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to excepting certain legislative documents from required

 1-9     disclosure under the open records law.

1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 552.106, Government Code, is amended to

1-12     read as follows:

1-13           Sec. 552.106.  EXCEPTION: CERTAIN LEGISLATIVE DOCUMENTS.  (a)

1-14     A draft or working paper involved in the preparation of  proposed

1-15     legislation is excepted from the requirements of Section 552.021.

1-16           (b)  An internal bill analysis or working paper prepared by

1-17     the governor's office for the purpose of evaluating proposed

1-18     legislation is excepted from the requirements of Section 552.021.

1-19           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-24     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-25     passage, and it is so enacted.

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