By: Shapleigh S.B. No. 1079 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the duties of the office of the attorney general with 1-2 regard to the public information law. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 552, Government Code, is 1-5 amended by adding Section 552.009 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 552.009. TOLL-FREE NUMBER; ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE. 1-7 The attorney general shall provide a statewide toll-free number by 1-8 which members of the public may contact the open records division 1-9 of the office of the attorney general. Each governmental body 1-10 shall post the number at the place that the governmental body is 1-11 required to post a notice of a meeting under Chapter 551. A 1-12 governmental body that is not subject to Chapter 551 shall post the 1-13 number at a place convenient to the public in or by the 1-14 administrative offices of the governmental body. A governmental 1-15 body shall post with the toll-free number a brief description, to 1-16 be prescribed by the attorney general, of the division's function. 1-17 SECTION 2. Section 552.321, Government Code, is amended to 1-18 read as follows: 1-19 Sec. 552.321. SUIT FOR WRIT OF MANDAMUS. A requestor or the 1-20 attorney general may file suit for a writ of mandamus compelling a 1-21 governmental body to make information available for public 1-22 inspection if the governmental body refuses to request an attorney 1-23 general's decision as provided by Subchapter G or refuses to 1-24 supply public information that is not excepted from required 2-1 disclosure or information that the attorney general has determined 2-2 is public information that is not excepted from required 2-3 disclosure. 2-4 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-5 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-6 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-7 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-8 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-9 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-10 passage, and it is so enacted.