TO:	Honorable Frank Madla, Chair, Senate Committee on Intergovernmental Relations
FROM:	John S. O'Brien, Deputy Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE:	SB1136 by Seliger (Relating to the method of selecting public members to serve on a county's salary grievance committee.), As Introduced

The bill would amend the Local Government Code to change the procedure for disclosure of the names of the public members of a county's salary grievance committee.  Current law requires the names of public members to be announced at the commissioner's court meeting at which they are selected.  The bill would prohibit disclosure of the names of the public members of the salary grievance committee until the first public hearing of the grievance committee.  Because the bill would create an exception to the disclosure requirements of the Public Information Act, an impact to open government laws is expected.