By: Taylor of Collin S.B. No. 902
(In the Senate - Filed March 3, 2015; March 9, 2015, read
first time and referred to Committee on Business and Commerce;
April 15, 2015, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9,
Nays 0; April 15, 2015, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the disclosure of certain public information by a
public school district.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 552, Government Code, is
amended by adding Section 552.030 to read as follows:
Sec. 552.030. REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION MADE TO SCHOOL
DISTRICTS. (a) The control files of a database used by a school
district to record financial information, or an analogous component
that records the physical structure of the district's database, are
public information subject to disclosure under this chapter.
(b) A school district shall cooperate with a requestor to
provide information requested under this chapter in the most
efficient and cost-effective manner practicable.
(c) This section does not require the disclosure of
information for which an employee declines public access under
Section 552.024 or of information made confidential under Section
552.135 or 552.147.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to a request for public information made on or after the effective
date of this Act. A request for public information made before the
effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the
date of the request, and that law is continued in effect for that
purpose.
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, 2015.
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