S.B. No. 1581




AN ACT

relating to excepting an audit working paper of a county auditor or 
a municipal auditor from required disclosure under the public 
information law.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 552.116, Government 
Code, is amended to read as follows:
	(a)  An audit working paper of an audit of the state auditor 
or the auditor of a state agency, an [or] institution of higher 
education as defined by Section 61.003, Education Code, a county, 
or a municipality is excepted from the requirements of Section 
552.021.  If information in an audit working paper is also 
maintained in another record, that other record is not excepted 
from the requirements of Section 552.021 by this section.
	SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies to 
audit working papers created before, on, or after the effective 
date of this Act.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this 
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 
Act takes effect September 1, 2003.

                                                                              




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President of the Senate             Speaker of the House
	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1581 passed the Senate on 
May 1, 2003, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that the 
Senate concurred in House amendment on May 28, 2003, by the 
following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.




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   Secretary of the Senate             
	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1581 passed the House, with 
amendment, on May 23, 2003, by the following vote:  Yeas 145, 
Nays 0, two present not voting.




______________________________ 
   Chief Clerk of the House            



Approved:


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            Date



______________________________ 
          Governor