Amend HR 4 in Rule 2, on page 21, following line 22, by inserting a new appropriately numbered section to read as follows:

Sec. ____. PROVISION OF APPROPRIATIONS DOCUMENTS. (a) At the request of a member of the house, the Legislative Budget Board shall make available to the member any document that any employee of the board has prepared and provides to the Committee on Appropriations, a subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, or to a house member of a conference committee on appropriations bills at the same time that the document is provided to the committee, subcommittee, or conferee.

(b) The Legislative Budget Board shall provide a document described by Subsection (a) to a member, at the member's request, in an open electronic format that is readable, searchable, editable, and in raw data form.

(c) The Legislative Budget Board shall post the information contained in each version of an appropriations bill considered by the house, including a conference committee report on an appropriations bill, in a open electronic format that is readable, searchable, editable, and in raw data form.

(d) A member who manipulates, alters, or otherwise changes data provided to the member under this section may not attribute the changed data as originating from the Legislative Budget Board.