By Eiland                                             H.B. No. 1190
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                                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.