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. 1-26 * * * * *