85R4825 SRS-D
 
  By: Nevárez H.B. No. 1082
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the applicability to certain draft grant applications
  of the exception from disclosure under the public information law
  for agency memoranda.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 552.111, Government Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         Sec. 552.111.  EXCEPTION: AGENCY MEMORANDA. (a) Except as
  provided by Subsection (b), an [An] interagency or intraagency
  memorandum or letter that would not be available by law to a party
  in litigation with the agency is excepted from the requirements of
  Section 552.021.
         (b)  The exception under this section does not apply to a
  draft grant application prepared by or for a governmental body
  after:
               (1)  the governmental body submits the grant
  application; 
               (2)  the governmental body determines it will not
  submit the grant application; or
               (3)  the deadline to submit the grant application has
  passed.
         SECTION 2.  The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
  a request for information received by a governmental body or an
  officer for public information on or after the effective date of
  this Act. A request for information received before the effective
  date of this Act is governed by the law in effect when the request
  was received, and the former law is continued in effect for that
  purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.