By: Coleman (Senate Sponsor - Shapiro) H.B. No. 2947
         (In the Senate - Received from the House May 6, 2011;
  May 9, 2011, read first time and referred to Select Committee on
  Open Government; May 20, 2011, reported adversely, with favorable
  Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 0;
  May 20, 2011, sent to printer.)
 
  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 2947 By:  Eltife
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the exception of an audit working paper of a hospital
  district from required disclosure under the public information law.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 552.116(a), 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, a hospital district, or a joint
  board operating under  Section 22.074, Transportation Code,
  including any audit relating to the criminal history background
  check of a public school employee, 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.  Section 552.116(b)(1), 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, the bylaws adopted by or other action of the governing
  board of a hospital district, a resolution or other action of a
  board of trustees of a school district, including an audit by the
  district relating to the criminal history background check of a
  public school employee, 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, 2011.
 
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