Bill Text: TX HB2947 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the exception of an audit working paper of a hospital district from required disclosure under the public information law.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [HB2947 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB2947-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 2947 |
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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. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 2947 was passed by the House on May 5, | ||
2011, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 4, 1 present, not | ||
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
No. 2947 on May 27, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 139, Nays 0, | ||
2 present, not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 2947 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
amendments, on May 25, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
0 | ||
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______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: __________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |