Bill Text: TX HB2871 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to nondisclosure provisions in regional planning commission contracts.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-25 - Referred to Land & Resource Management [HB2871 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB2871-Introduced.html
By: Capriglione | H.B. No. 2871 |
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relating to nondisclosure provisions in regional planning | ||
commission contracts. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 391, Local Government Code, is amended | ||
by adding Section 391.0085 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 391.0085. REVIEW OF NONDISCLOSURE PROVISIONS IN | ||
CONTRACTS. (a) Before entering into a contract that contains a | ||
nondisclosure provision with a political subdivision of the state, | ||
a commission shall submit the proposed contract to the attorney | ||
general for review. | ||
(b) The attorney general shall determine whether the | ||
nondisclosure provision prohibits the disclosure of public | ||
information that is not protected from disclosure under Chapter | ||
552, Government Code, and shall provide the commission with a | ||
written opinion regarding that determination not later than the | ||
60th day after the date the attorney general received the contract | ||
for review. | ||
(c) The commission may not include a nondisclosure | ||
provision in a contract if the attorney general determines the | ||
provision prohibits the disclosure of public information or if one | ||
of the parties to the contract is a member of the governing body of | ||
the | ||
commission. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |