By Woolley                                      H.B. No. 3476

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                                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.