By Turner of Harris                                   H.B. No. 2833
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to determining the types of public information most often
 1-3     requested from state governmental bodies under the open records
 1-4     law.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 552, Government Code, is
 1-7     amended by adding Section 552.009 to read as follows:
 1-8           Sec. 552.009.  DETERMINING TYPES OF INFORMATION FREQUENTLY
 1-9     REQUESTED FROM STATE GOVERNMENTAL BODIES; RULES AND REPORT OF
1-10     GENERAL SERVICES COMMISSION.  (a)  Each state governmental body
1-11     shall keep a record of and report to the General Services
1-12     Commission the categories of public information requested from the
1-13     governmental body under this chapter and the frequency with which
1-14     the different categories of public information are requested.
1-15           (b)  The General Services Commission shall prescribe the form
1-16     of the report required under Subsection (a)  and shall prescribe by
1-17     rule the categories into which requested public information will be
1-18     divided for purposes of this section. The commission shall analyze
1-19     the information it receives under this section and report to the
1-20     legislature not later than November 1 of each even-numbered year on
1-21     the frequency with which different categories of public information
1-22     are requested from state governmental bodies under this chapter.
1-23           (c)  The General Services Commission shall at a minimum
1-24     design the categories of information and draft its report so that
 2-1     the legislature and state governmental bodies may determine the
 2-2     extent to which it would be cost-effective for state government or
 2-3     useful to members of the public for state governmental bodies to
 2-4     publicize frequently requested categories of public information
 2-5     without waiting for the information to be requested under this
 2-6     chapter.
 2-7           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-8     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-9     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-10     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-11     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-12     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-13     passage, and it is so enacted.