By Harris S.B. No. 439
75R4861 JRD-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to audit working papers and draft audit reports under the
1-3 open records law.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 552.116, Government Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 552.116. EXCEPTION: AUDIT [STATE AUDITOR] WORKING
1-8 PAPERS. An audit working paper or draft audit report of the state
1-9 auditor or of another governmental body in state government is
1-10 excepted from the requirements of Section 552.021.
1-11 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-16 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-17 passage, and it is so enacted.