By: Gallegos S.B. No. 1854
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the exception of an audit working paper of a school
  district 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 institution of higher education
  as defined by Section 61.003, Education Code, a county, a
  municipality, a school district, or a joint board operating under
  Section 22.074, Transportation Code, 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.  Subdivision (1), Subsection (b), Section
  552.116, Government Code, is amended to read as follows:
               (1)  "Audit" means an audit authorized or required by a
  statute of this state or the United States, the charter or an
  ordinance of a municipality, an order of the commissioners court of
  a county, a resolution or other action of a board of trustees of a
  school district, or a resolution or other action of a joint board
  described by Subsection (a) and includes an investigation.
         SECTION 3.  The change in law made by this Act applies to an
  audit working paper created before, on, or after the effective date
  of this Act.
         SECTION 4.  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, 2007.