By: Patterson S.B. No. 1714
97S0851/1
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the definition of governmental body for the purposes of
1-2 the public information law.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subdivision (1), Section 552.003, Government
1-5 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-6 (1) "Governmental body":
1-7 (A) means:
1-8 (i) a board, commission, department,
1-9 committee, institution, agency, or office that is within or is
1-10 created by the executive or legislative branch of state government
1-11 and that is directed by one or more elected or appointed members;
1-12 (ii) a county commissioners court in the
1-13 state;
1-14 (iii) a municipal governing body in the
1-15 state;
1-16 (iv) a deliberative body that has
1-17 rulemaking or quasi-judicial power and that is classified as a
1-18 department, agency, or political subdivision of a county or
1-19 municipality;
1-20 (v) a school district board of trustees;
1-21 (vi) a county board of school trustees;
1-22 (vii) a county board of education;
1-23 (viii) a charter school;
2-1 (ix) [(viii)] the governing board of a
2-2 special district;
2-3 (x) [(ix)] the governing body of a
2-4 nonprofit corporation organized under Chapter 76, Acts of the 43rd
2-5 Legislature, 1st Called Session, 1933 (Article 1434a, Vernon's
2-6 Texas Civil Statutes), that provides a water supply or wastewater
2-7 service, or both, and is exempt from ad valorem taxation under
2-8 Section 11.30, Tax Code; and
2-9 (xi) [(x)] the part, section, or portion
2-10 of an organization, corporation, commission, committee,
2-11 institution, or agency that spends or that is supported in whole or
2-12 in part by public funds; and
2-13 (B) does not include the judiciary.
2-14 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
2-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.