By Puente H.B. No. 863 76R4144 MLS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the disclosure of information compiled by a grievance 1-3 committee of the State Bar of Texas. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 81.072, Government Code, is amended by 1-6 adding Subsection (h) to read as follows: 1-7 (h) All information and materials compiled by a grievance 1-8 committee in connection with a complaint and investigation of an 1-9 attorney are subject to discovery or other legal process. 1-10 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and 1-11 applies only to a complaint filed on or after the effective date of 1-12 this Act. A complaint filed before the effective date of this Act 1-13 is governed by the law in effect at the time the complaint was 1-14 filed, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose. 1-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.