1-1 By: Shapleigh S.B. No. 747 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 26, 1999; March 2, 1999, read 1-3 first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; 1-4 March 29, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 8, 1-5 Nays 0; March 29, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to determining the types of public information most often 1-9 requested from state governmental bodies under the open records 1-10 law. 1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-12 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 552, Government Code, is 1-13 amended by adding Section 552.009 to read as follows: 1-14 Sec. 552.009. DETERMINING TYPES OF INFORMATION FREQUENTLY 1-15 REQUESTED FROM STATE GOVERNMENTAL BODIES; RULES AND REPORT OF 1-16 GENERAL SERVICES COMMISSION. (a) Each state governmental body 1-17 shall keep a record of and report to the General Services 1-18 Commission the categories of public information requested from the 1-19 governmental body under this chapter and the frequency with which 1-20 the different categories of public information are requested. 1-21 (b) The General Services Commission shall prescribe the form 1-22 of the report required under Subsection (a) and shall prescribe by 1-23 rule the categories into which requested public information will be 1-24 divided for purposes of this section. The commission shall analyze 1-25 the information it receives under this section and report to the 1-26 legislature not later than November 1 of each even-numbered year on 1-27 the frequency with which different categories of public information 1-28 are requested from state governmental bodies under this chapter. 1-29 (c) The General Services Commission shall at a minimum 1-30 design the categories of information and draft its report so that 1-31 the legislature and state governmental bodies may determine the 1-32 extent to which it would be cost-effective for state government or 1-33 useful to members of the public for state governmental bodies to 1-34 publicize frequently requested categories of public information 1-35 without waiting for the information to be requested under this 1-36 chapter. 1-37 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-38 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-39 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-40 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-41 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-42 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-43 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-44 * * * * *