1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to information that certain state agencies must post on
 1-3     the Internet.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter F, Chapter 2054, Government Code, is
 1-6     amended by adding Section 2054.121 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 2054.121.  REQUIRED POSTING OF INFORMATION ON INTERNET.
 1-8     Each state agency, other than an institution of higher education,
 1-9     that receives an aggregate amount of appropriations in the  General
1-10     Appropriations Act for a state fiscal biennium that exceeds $175
1-11     million shall post the following information during the biennium on
1-12     a generally accessible Internet site maintained by or for the
1-13     agency:
1-14                 (1)  an analysis of all agency expenditures during the
1-15     two preceding state fiscal years that lists each county in the
1-16     state and states for each county the amount of agency expenditures
1-17     made in or for the benefit of the county;
1-18                 (2)  if the information required to substantially
1-19     comply with Subdivision (1) is not available, an analysis that
1-20     approximates compliance with Subdivision (1) to the greatest
1-21     possible extent by listing agency expenditures according to
1-22     geographic regions of the state, to the extent possible, and by
1-23     each field office of the agency;
1-24                 (3)  a profile of the governing officer or of each
 2-1     member of the governing body of the agency that includes, among
 2-2     other information, the office address of the officer or member;
 2-3                 (4)  a listing and description of all contracts with
 2-4     vendors that have a value exceeding $100,000 that the agency has
 2-5     entered into and that are currently being performed or for which
 2-6     performance has not yet begun;
 2-7                 (5)  a brief description of the agency's duties; and
 2-8                 (6)  an electronic link to the agency's rules as
 2-9     published in the electronic version of the Texas Administrative
2-10     Code and an electronic link to any written procedure of the agency
2-11     relating to agency hearings that is not contained in the electronic
2-12     version of the Texas Administrative Code.
2-13           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect October 1, 1999.
2-14           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-15     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-16     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-17     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-18     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
         _______________________________     _______________________________
             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 2835 was passed by the House on April
         30, 1999, by a non-record vote; and that the House concurred in
         Senate amendments to H.B. No. 2835 on May 26, 1999, by a non-record
         vote.
                                             _______________________________
                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 2835 was passed by the Senate, with
         amendments, on May 24, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays
         0.
                                             _______________________________
                                                 Secretary of the Senate
         APPROVED:  _____________________
                            Date
                    _____________________
                          Governor