By Eiland H.B. No. 1190 76R3913 JSA-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the use of certain state services and facilities by 1-3 members of the legislature. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 301, Government Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 301.033 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 301.033. USE OF DATA-PROCESSING FACILITIES. (a) An 1-8 office or agency that provides data-processing or computer services 1-9 or facilities to individual members of the legislature for official 1-10 use shall establish procedures by which a member may use the 1-11 services or facilities for personal use if that personal use: 1-12 (1) is the same or similar to the official uses for 1-13 which the services or facilities are provided; 1-14 (2) does not require substantial expansion or 1-15 modification of the services or facilities or substantial 1-16 additional services to support the personal use; and 1-17 (3) does not interfere with the official use of the 1-18 services or facilities. 1-19 (b) The procedures must: 1-20 (1) include a method for maintaining a permanent 1-21 record of the member's personal use of the services or facilities; 1-22 and 1-23 (2) require the member to pay or reimburse the office 1-24 or agency for all costs incurred in connection with the member's 2-1 personal use of the services or facilities. 2-2 (c) Information contained in the records of the member's 2-3 private use of the services or facilities is confidential, except 2-4 that the office or agency providing the services or facilities and 2-5 the state auditor may examine that information to determine 2-6 compliance with this section. 2-7 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 2-8 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-9 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-10 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-11 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-12 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.