82R5225 KYF-F
By: Wentworth S.B. No. 669
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to requests to inspect or be provided with copies of
information under the public information law.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 552.003(2), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(2) "Manipulation" means the process of modifying,
reordering, or decoding of information with human intervention.
The term includes a search of one or more e-mail or text message
accounts and the retrieval and transfer of e-mails or text messages
that are responsive to a request for public information into a paper
or other format that can be provided to or inspected by the
requestor.
SECTION 2. Section 552.2615(g), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(g) The time deadlines imposed by this section toll [do not
affect] the application of a time deadline imposed on a
governmental body under Subchapter G, beginning on the date the
itemized statement or updated itemized statement is considered to
have been sent by the governmental body under Subsection (e) and
ending on the date the governmental body receives a response from
the requestor.
SECTION 3. Section 552.263, Government Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (e-1) to read as follows:
(e-1) If a requestor modifies the request in response to the
requirement of a deposit or bond authorized by this section, the
modified request is considered a separate request for the purposes
of this chapter and is considered received on the date the
governmental body receives the written modified request.
SECTION 4. The changes in law made by this Act to Sections
552.003, 552.2615, and 552.263, Government Code, apply only to a
request for information that is received by a governmental body or
an officer for public information on or after the effective date of
this Act. A request for information that was received before the
effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the
date the request was received, and the former law is continued in
effect for that purpose.
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.