Bill Text: TX HB1082 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the applicability to certain draft grant applications of the exception from disclosure under the public information law for agency memoranda.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-08 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB1082 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB1082-Comm_Sub.html

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85R22070 SRS-D
By: Nevárez H.B. No. 1082
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1082:
By: Elkins C.S.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 state agency or
governmental entity with taxing authority after:
(1) the state agency or governmental entity with
taxing authority submits the grant application;
(2) the state agency or governmental entity with
taxing authority 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.