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. 1-27 * * * * *