1-1     By:  Shapleigh                                         S.B. No. 497
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed January 31, 2001; February 5, 2001,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
 1-4     April 4, 2001, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 8,
 1-5     Nays 0; April 4, 2001, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to information a state agency may post on the Internet.
 1-9           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10           SECTION 1.  Section 2054.121, Government Code, as added by
1-11     Chapter 1573, Acts of the 76th Legislature, Regular Session, 1999,
1-12     is amended to read as follows:
1-13           Sec. 2054.121.  [REQUIRED] POSTING OF INFORMATION ON
1-14     INTERNET.  (a)  Each state agency, other than an institution of
1-15     higher education, that receives an aggregate amount of
1-16     appropriations in the General Appropriations Act for a state fiscal
1-17     biennium that exceeds $175 million shall post the following
1-18     information during the biennium on a generally accessible Internet
1-19     site maintained by or for the agency:
1-20                 (1)  an analysis of all agency expenditures during the
1-21     two preceding state fiscal years that lists each county in the
1-22     state and states for each county the amount of agency expenditures
1-23     made in or for the benefit of the county;
1-24                 (2)  if the information required to substantially
1-25     comply with Subdivision (1) is not available, an analysis that
1-26     approximates compliance with Subdivision (1) to the greatest
1-27     possible extent by listing agency expenditures according to
1-28     geographic regions of the state, to the extent possible, and by
1-29     each field office of the agency;
1-30                 (3)  a profile of the governing officer or of each
1-31     member of the governing body of the agency that includes, among
1-32     other information, the office address of the officer or member;
1-33                 (4)  a listing and description of all contracts with
1-34     vendors that have a value exceeding $100,000 that the agency has
1-35     entered into and that are currently being performed or for which
1-36     performance has not yet begun;
1-37                 (5)  a brief description of the agency's duties; and
1-38                 (6)  an electronic link to the agency's rules as
1-39     published in the electronic version of the Texas Administrative
1-40     Code and an electronic link to any written procedure of the agency
1-41     relating to agency hearings that is not contained in the electronic
1-42     version of the Texas Administrative Code.
1-43           (b)  Each state agency that maintains a generally accessible
1-44     Internet site or for which a generally accessible Internet site is
1-45     maintained may post on the site any nonconfidential information
1-46     related to the agency's programs, activities, or functions.
1-47           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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