By: Harris S.B. No. 57 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the exception from required disclosure under the public 1-2 information law of information relating to litigation. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 552.103, Government Code, is amended by 1-5 adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: 1-6 (c) Information relating to litigation involving a 1-7 governmental body or an officer or employee of a governmental body 1-8 is excepted from disclosure under Subsection (a) only if the 1-9 litigation is pending or reasonably anticipated on the date that 1-10 the requestor applies to the officer for public information for 1-11 access to or duplication of the information. 1-12 SECTION 2. 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, 1-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-18 passage, and it is so enacted.