1-1 By: Wentworth S.B. No. 1101 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 10, 1997; March 13, 1997, read 1-3 first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; 1-4 April 4, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 13, 1-5 Nays 0; April 4, 1997, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to access to certain law enforcement and prosecutorial 1-9 records under the open records law. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Section 552.108, Government Code, is amended to 1-12 read as follows: 1-13 Sec. 552.108. EXCEPTION: CERTAIN LAW ENFORCEMENT AND 1-14 PROSECUTORIAL INFORMATION. (a) Information held by a law 1-15 enforcement agency or prosecutor that deals with the detection, 1-16 investigation, or prosecution of crime is excepted from the 1-17 requirements of Section 552.021 if release of the information would 1-18 unduly interfere with the detection, investigation, or prosecution 1-19 of crime. 1-20 (b) An internal record or notation of a law enforcement 1-21 agency or prosecutor that is maintained for internal use in matters 1-22 relating to law enforcement or prosecution is excepted from the 1-23 requirements of Section 552.021 if release of the internal record 1-24 or notation would unduly interfere with law enforcement or 1-25 prosecution. 1-26 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act to Section 1-27 552.108, Government Code, applies to information, records, and 1-28 notations collected, made, assembled, or maintained on, before, or 1-29 after the effective date of this Act. 1-30 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-31 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-32 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-33 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-34 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-35 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-36 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-37 * * * * *