By Turner of Harris                                   H.B. No. 2852
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to allowing the General Services Commission to audit the
 1-3     procedures used by a governmental body to process requests for
 1-4     public information.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Section 552.262, Government Code, is amended by
 1-7     adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
 1-8           (f)  The General Services Commission may on request or on its
 1-9     own initiative audit the procedures by which a governmental body
1-10     processes requests  for public information.
1-11           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-12           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-13     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-14     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-15     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-16     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.