By Harris                                        S.B. No. 439

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                                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.