By Woolley H.B. No. 3476 75R5818 PAM-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to county authority to impose a charge for access to the 1-3 county's computerized electronic information system. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 191.008(b), Local Government Code, is 1-6 amended to read as follows: 1-7 (b) The commissioners court may: 1-8 (1) provide procedures for the establishment, 1-9 maintenance, and operation of the information system; 1-10 (2) establish eligibility criteria for users; 1-11 (3) delineate the public information to be available 1-12 through the system; 1-13 (4) notwithstanding any other provision of law, set a 1-14 reasonable fee, charged under a contract, for use of the system; 1-15 and 1-16 (5) consolidate billing and collection of fees and 1-17 payments under one county department or office. 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.