By Turner of Harris                                   H.B. No. 2835
         76R6109 JRD-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 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 that receives an aggregate amount of
 1-9     appropriations in the  General Appropriations Act for a state
1-10     fiscal biennium that exceeds $175 million shall post the following
1-11     information during the biennium on a generally accessible Internet
1-12     site maintained by or for the agency:
1-13                 (1)  an analysis of all agency expenditures during the
1-14     two preceding state fiscal years that lists each county in the
1-15     state and states for each county the amount of agency expenditures
1-16     made in or for the benefit of the county;
1-17                 (2)  if the information required to substantially
1-18     comply with Subdivision (1) is not available, an analysis that
1-19     approximates compliance with Subdivision (1) to the greatest
1-20     possible extent by listing agency expenditures according to
1-21     geographic regions of the state, to the extent possible, and by
1-22     each field office of the agency;
1-23                 (3)  a profile of the governing officer or of each
1-24     member of the governing body of the agency that includes, among
 2-1     other information, the office address of the officer or member;
 2-2                 (4)  a listing and description of all contracts with
 2-3     vendors that have a value exceeding $15,000 that the agency has
 2-4     entered into and that are currently being performed or for which
 2-5     performance has not yet begun;
 2-6                 (5)  a brief description of the agency's duties; and
 2-7                 (6)  an electronic link to the agency's rules as
 2-8     published in the electronic version of the Texas Administrative
 2-9     Code and an electronic link to any written procedure of the agency
2-10     relating to agency hearings that is not contained in the electronic
2-11     version of the Texas Administrative Code.
2-12           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect October 1, 1999.
2-13           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-14     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-15     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-16     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-17     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.