1-1     By:  Shapleigh                                         S.B. No. 853
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 3, 1999; March 8, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
 1-4     March 29, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
 1-5     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0; March 29, 1999,
 1-6     sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 853                By:  Shapleigh
 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-9                                   AN ACT
1-10     relating to requiring the comptroller of public accounts to post
1-11     reports on the Internet.
1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 403, Government Code, is
1-14     amended by adding Section 403.0115 to read as follows:
1-15           Sec. 403.0115.  REPORTS PUBLISHED ON INTERNET.  The
1-16     comptroller shall promptly publish on the comptroller's Internet
1-17     site each report that is:
1-18                 (1)  published by the comptroller; and
1-19                 (2)  public information subject to disclosure under the
1-20     open records law, Chapter 552.
1-21           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-22           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-25     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-26     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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