1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to charges for access to Texas Workers' Compensation 1-3 Commission information. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 402.081, Labor Code, is amended by adding 1-6 Subsection (d) to read as follows: 1-7 (d) The commission may charge a reasonable fee for making 1-8 available for inspection any of its information that contains 1-9 confidential information that must be redacted before the 1-10 information is made available. However, when a request for 1-11 information is for the inspection of 10 or fewer pages, and a copy 1-12 of the information is not requested, the commission may charge only 1-13 the cost of making a copy of the page from which confidential 1-14 information must be redacted. The fee for access to information 1-15 under Chapter 552, Government Code, shall be in accord with the 1-16 rules of the General Services Commission that prescribe the method 1-17 for computing the charge for copies under that chapter. 1-18 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-24 passage, and it is so enacted. _______________________________ _______________________________ President of the Senate Speaker of the House I certify that H.B. No. 3279 was passed by the House on April 18, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 0, 2 present, not voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. No. 3279 on May 24, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 141, Nays 0, 1 present, not voting. _______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House I certify that H.B. No. 3279 was passed by the Senate, with amendments, on May 22, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. _______________________________ Secretary of the Senate APPROVED: _____________________ Date _____________________ Governor