1-1     By:  Carona                                            S.B. No. 279
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed January 26, 1999; February 1, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
 1-4     March 8, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 8,
 1-5     Nays 0; March 8, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the charge for providing public information requested
 1-9     for an official purpose by a governmental body under the open
1-10     records law.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  Section 552.267, Government Code, is amended by
1-13     adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
1-14           (c)  A governmental body shall provide without charge one
1-15     copy of public information that is requested for an official
1-16     purpose by another governmental body.
1-17           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-18     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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