Bill Text: TX SB895 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to access to records of a nonprofit organization supporting the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas under the public information law.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [SB895 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-SB895-Comm_Sub.html

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By: Davis, Ellis S.B. No. 895
(In the Senate - Filed February 27, 2013; March 5, 2013,
read first time and referred to Committee on Open Government;
April 11, 2013, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; April 11, 2013,
sent to printer.)
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 895 By: Davis

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to access to records of a nonprofit organization
supporting the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas
under the public information law.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 102.262, Health and Safety Code, is
amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
(c) The records of a nonprofit organization established to
provide support to the institute shall be made available to the
public. A record that is available under this subsection is public
information subject to Chapter 552, Government Code.
SECTION 2. 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, 2013.
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