By:  Shapleigh                                         S.B. No. 853
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to requiring the comptroller of public accounts to post
 1-2     reports on the Internet.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 403, Government Code, is
 1-5     amended by adding Section 403.0115 to read as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 403.0115.  REPORTS PUBLISHED ON INTERNET.  The
 1-7     comptroller shall promptly publish on the comptroller's Internet
 1-8     site each report that is:
 1-9                 (1)  published by the comptroller; and
1-10                 (2)  public information subject to disclosure under the
1-11     open records law, Chapter 552.
1-12           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-13           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-14     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-15     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-16     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-17     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.