By Harris S.B. No. 440
75R4859 JRD-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to licensing records requested from a state agency by
1-3 another state agency for purposes of state contracting.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 555, Government Code, is amended by
1-6 adding Subchapter C to read as follows:
1-7 SUBCHAPTER C. LICENSE RECORDS REQUESTED BY ANOTHER AGENCY
1-8 Sec. 555.051. DEFINITION. In this subchapter, "state
1-9 agency" means any board, commission, department, or other agency in
1-10 the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of state government.
1-11 Sec. 555.052. STATE AGENCY RIGHT OF ACCESS TO LICENSING
1-12 INFORMATION. (a) Notwithstanding other law, a state agency shall
1-13 on request provide another state agency with all relevant
1-14 information about the status of a license held or formerly held by
1-15 one of its licensees if the requesting state agency states that the
1-16 information is needed to evaluate a bid or proposal or the status
1-17 of a contract. The requesting state agency may request the
1-18 information about its contractors or subcontractors or its
1-19 potential contractors or subcontractors.
1-20 (b) The requesting state agency may not disclose the
1-21 information outside the agency if the information is confidential
1-22 or excepted from required disclosure under other law.
1-23 SECTION 2. Section 555.003, Government Code, is amended to
1-24 read as follows:
2-1 Sec. 555.003. EXCEPTION. Subchapter B [This chapter] does
2-2 not apply to files that relate to drivers of motor vehicles and
2-3 that are maintained by the Department of Public Safety under
2-4 Subchapter C, Chapter 521, Transportation Code [Section 21, Chapter
2-5 173, Acts of the 47th Legislature, Regular Session, 1941 (Article
2-6 6687b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes)].
2-7 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-8 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-9 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-10 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-11 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-12 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-13 passage, and it is so enacted.