1-1     By:  Shapleigh                                         S.B. No. 897

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 3, 1997; March 6, 1997, read

 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;

 1-4     April 8, 1997, reported favorably, as amended, by the following

 1-5     vote:  Yeas 13, Nays 0; April 8, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6     COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                           By:  Armbrister

 1-7           Amend S.B. No. 897 in SECTION 3 of the bill, by adding the

 1-8     following at the end of added Section 2170.005(c), Government Code:

 1-9     The commission may authorize, under terms considered appropriate by

1-10     the commission, a yellow pages advertising section in the

1-11     directories to recover development, publication, and distribution

1-12     costs of the directories.

1-13                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

1-14                                   AN ACT

1-15     relating to facilitating the organization and availability of

1-16     government information.

1-17           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-18           SECTION 1.  Section 441.053, Government Code, is amended by

1-19     amending Subsection (j) and adding Subsection (k) to read as

1-20     follows:

1-21           (j)  The council shall categorize state agency programs and

1-22     telephone numbers by subject matter as well as by agency. State

1-23     agencies shall cooperate with the council by providing the council

1-24     with the information it needs to perform this function.

1-25           (k)  In this section, "member agency" means each state

1-26     officer who is a member of the council or an agency that has a

1-27     representative who is a member of the council.

1-28           SECTION 2.  Section 3.309, Public Utility Regulatory Act of

1-29     1995 (Article 1446c-0, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended

1-30     to read as follows:

1-31           Sec. 3.309.  PUBLICATION OF STATE AGENCY AND STATE PUBLIC

1-32     SERVICE NUMBERS.  (a)  A private for-profit publisher of a

1-33     residential telephone directory that is distributed to the public

1-34     at minimal or no cost shall include in the directory a listing of

1-35     any toll-free and local telephone numbers of state agencies and

1-36     state public services and of each state elected official who

1-37     represents all or part of the geographical area for which the

1-38     directory contains listings.

1-39           (b)  The listing required by this section must be clearly

1-40     identified and must be located or clearly referenced at the front

1-41     of the directory before the main listing of residential and

1-42     business telephone numbers.  [The listing is not required to exceed

1-43     a length equivalent to two 8 1/2-inch by 11-inch pages,

1-44     single-spaced in eight-point type.]

1-45           (c)  The commission may adopt rules to implement this

1-46     section, including rules specifying the format of the listing and

1-47     criteria for inclusion of agencies, services, and officials. The

1-48     commission's rules must require a publisher to list the telephone

1-49     number for state government information and to list telephone

1-50     numbers alphabetically by the subject matter of agency programs as

1-51     well as alphabetically by agency.  The commission, with the

1-52     cooperation of other state agencies, shall compile relevant

1-53     information to ensure accuracy of information in the listing and

1-54     shall provide the information to a telecommunications utility or

1-55     telephone directory publisher within a reasonable time after a

1-56     request by the utility or publisher.

1-57           (d)  The General Services Commission shall cooperate with the

1-58     commission and with publishers to ensure that the subject matter

1-59     listings of programs and telephone numbers in the telephone

1-60     directories are consistent with the categorization developed by the

1-61     Records Management Interagency Coordinating Council under Section

1-62     441.053, Government Code.

1-63           SECTION 3.  Section 2170.005, Government Code, is amended by

1-64     adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:

 2-1           (c)  Telephone directories published by the commission under

 2-2     this section and Section 2170.059 must be revised regularly and

 2-3     must list state telephone numbers alphabetically by the subject

 2-4     matter of agency programs as well as alphabetically by agency. The

 2-5     subject matter listing of programs and telephone numbers in the

 2-6     telephone directories must be consistent with the categorization

 2-7     developed by the Records Management Interagency Coordinating

 2-8     Council under Section 441.053.

 2-9           SECTION 4.  The Records Management Interagency Coordinating

2-10     Council shall form a research group to study:

2-11                 (1)  the functional requirements for keeping and

2-12     archiving records in an electronic format;

2-13                 (2)  possible cost-effective guidelines for using

2-14     records in an electronic format;

2-15                 (3)  a possible policy for state government's archiving

2-16     of records in an electronic format;

2-17                 (4)  possible standards and policies for formatting

2-18     information in an electronic format; and

2-19                 (5)  feasible ways to develop a searchable database

2-20     that contains state agency documents in an electronic format.

2-21           SECTION 5.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

2-22           SECTION 6.  The importance of this legislation and the

2-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

2-24     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-25     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-26     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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