Bill Text: TX SB700 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the maintenance by the Legislative Budget Board of a searchable database containing certain budget information.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-23 - Referred to Finance [SB700 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB700-Introduced.html
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| By: Watson | S.B. No. 700 | |
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| relating to the maintenance by the Legislative Budget Board of a | ||
| searchable database containing certain budget information. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 322, Government Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Section 322.021 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 322.021. BUDGET DATABASE. (a) The Legislative Budget | ||
| Board shall post on an Internet site maintained by the board a | ||
| database containing the information that the board uses to prepare | ||
| the general appropriations bill as filed and as subsequently | ||
| amended, substituted, engrossed, or enrolled in either house of the | ||
| legislature. | ||
| (b) The board shall post information to the database as soon | ||
| as practicable after receipt of the information. | ||
| (c) The information contained in the database must be raw | ||
| data in open standard format that allows the public to search, | ||
| extract, organize, and analyze the information. | ||
| (d) The board may not publish in the database information | ||
| that is not subject to required disclosure under Chapter 552 or that | ||
| is confidential. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 322.021, Government Code, as added by | ||
| this Act, applies only to information received on or after October | ||
| 1, 2011. | ||
| SECTION 3. Not later than October 1, 2011, the Legislative | ||
| Budget Board shall establish the database as required by Section | ||
| 322.021, Government Code, as added by 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. | ||
