By Carona                                              S.B. No. 279
         76R649 JD-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the charge for providing public information requested
 1-3     for an official purpose by a governmental body under the open
 1-4     records law.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Section 552.267, Government Code, is amended by
 1-7     adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
 1-8           (c)  A governmental body shall provide without charge one
 1-9     copy of public information that is requested for an official
1-10     purpose by another governmental body.
1-11           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-12     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-13     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-14     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-15     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.