By Turner of Harris                                   H.B. No. 2837
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to requiring the comptroller of public accounts to post
 1-3     reports on the Internet.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 403, Government Code, is
 1-6     amended by adding Section 403.0115 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 403.0115.  REPORTS PUBLISHED ON INTERNET.  The
 1-8     comptroller shall publish on the comptroller's Internet site each
 1-9     report that is:
1-10                 (1)  prepared by the comptroller; and
1-11                 (2)  public information subject to disclosure under the
1-12     open records law, Chapter 552.
1-13           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-14           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-15     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-16     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-17     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-18     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.