By: Coleman (Senate Sponsor - Shapiro) H.B. No. 2947
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 6, 2011;
May 9, 2011, read first time and referred to Select Committee on
Open Government; May 20, 2011, reported adversely, with favorable
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 4, Nays 0;
May 20, 2011, sent to printer.)
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 2947 By: Eltife
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
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.
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