1-1     By:  Counts (Senate Sponsor - Duncan)                 H.B. No. 3279

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 21, 1997;

 1-3     April 23, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on

 1-4     Economic Development; May 18, 1997, reported favorably by the

 1-5     following vote:  Yeas 10, Nays 0; May 18, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to charges for access to Texas Workers' Compensation

 1-9     Commission information.

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

1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 402.081, Labor Code, is amended by adding

1-12     Subsection (d) to read as follows:

1-13           (d)  The commission may charge a reasonable fee for making

1-14     available for inspection any of its information that contains

1-15     confidential information that must be redacted before the

1-16     information is made available.  The fee for access to information

1-17     under Chapter 552, Government Code, shall be in accord with the

1-18     rules of the General Services Commission that prescribe the method

1-19     for computing the charge for copies under that chapter.

1-20           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-24     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-25     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-26     passage, and it is so enacted.

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