Floor Packet Page No. 149                                                   

	
Amend CSSB 1 (House committee printing) in Article VIII of 
the bill following the appropriations to the Public Utility 
Commission of Texas (page VIII-80) by adding the following rider, 
numbered appropriately, and by renumbering subsequent riders 
accordingly:
	__.  Open Meetings and Records for Independent 
Organizations.  The legislature intends that money appropriated by 
this Act not be given to an independent organization certified for a 
power region under Subchapter D, Chapter 39, Utilities Code, unless 
the independent organization provides for public access to the 
meetings of the organization's governing body and to the 
organization's records to at least the same degree Chapters 551 and 
552, Government Code, require a governmental body to provide public 
access to the governmental body's meetings and records.