1-1     By:  Maxey (Senate Sponsor - Ellis)                   H.B. No. 1016
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 9, 1999;
 1-3     April 12, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on State
 1-4     Affairs; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
 1-5     Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the manner in which state agency reports are made
 1-9     available to members of the legislature.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 2052, Government Code, is
1-12     amended by adding Section 2052.0021 to read as follows:
1-13           Sec. 2052.0021.  DISTRIBUTION OF REPORTS TO LEGISLATORS.  (a)
1-14     In this section, "state agency" has the meaning assigned by Section
1-15     2052.002.
1-16           (b)  Notwithstanding other law, a state agency report
1-17     required by law may be made available to members of the legislature
1-18     only in accordance with this section.
1-19           (c)  A state agency shall make each report required by law
1-20     available to members of the legislature in an electronic format
1-21     determined by the Texas Legislative Council. The agency shall
1-22     promptly send a suitable printed copy of the report to a member of
1-23     the legislature at the request of the member.
1-24           (d)  At the time a report required by law is ready for
1-25     distribution outside the state agency, the agency shall send
1-26     written notice to each member of the legislature that the report is
1-27     available. The agency shall send the notice by mail or, if it is
1-28     acceptable to the member, electronically. The notice must briefly
1-29     describe the subject matter of the report and state:
1-30                 (1)  the manner in which the member may obtain the
1-31     report electronically; and
1-32                 (2)  that the agency will send a printed copy of the
1-33     report to the member at the request of the member.
1-34           (e)  This section does not affect the duty of a state agency
1-35     to directly send a printed copy of a report to an officer or
1-36     committee of the legislature if other law specifically requires
1-37     that the report be sent to that officer or committee, and the
1-38     agency is not required to comply with this section before sending
1-39     the report to that officer or committee.
1-40           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-41           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-42     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-43     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-44     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-45     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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