By Haggerty H.B. No. 2762
76R5924 JD-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to requests for information under the public information
1-3 law from incarcerated individuals and their agents.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Sections 552.028(a) and (b), Government Code, are
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (a) A governmental body is not required to accept or comply
1-8 with a request for information from:
1-9 (1) an individual who is imprisoned or confined in a
1-10 correctional facility; or
1-11 (2) an agent of that individual, other than that
1-12 individual's attorney.
1-13 (b) This section [Subsection (a)] does not prohibit a
1-14 governmental body from disclosing to an individual described by
1-15 Subsection (a)(1), or that individual's agent, [that subsection]
1-16 information held by the governmental body pertaining to that
1-17 individual.
1-18 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-24 passage, and it is so enacted.