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.
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