By: Carona S.B. No. 279 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the charge for providing public information requested 1-2 for an official purpose by a governmental body under the open 1-3 records law. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 552.267, Government Code, is amended by 1-6 adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: 1-7 (c) A governmental body shall provide without charge one 1-8 copy of public information that is requested for an official 1-9 purpose by another governmental body provided, however, that if the 1-10 charge for producing one copy exceeds: (1) $500 for a 1-11 governmental body that employs more than 10 full-time employees; or 1-12 (2) $100 for a governmental body that employs 10 or fewer 1-13 full-time employees, the requesting governmental body shall, upon 1-14 request, pay the costs for producing the information. 1-15 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.