82R8844 ALB-F
By: Coleman H.B. No. 2947
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. 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 3. 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.