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.

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             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.

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                                                 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.

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                                                 Secretary of the Senate

         APPROVED:  _____________________

                            Date

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                          Governor