86R3328 SRS-D
By: Nevárez H.B. No. 543
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the applicability to certain draft grant applications
of the exception from disclosure under the public information law
for agency memoranda.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 552.111, Government Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 552.111. EXCEPTION: AGENCY MEMORANDA. (a) Except as
provided by Subsection (b), an [An] interagency or intraagency
memorandum or letter that would not be available by law to a party
in litigation with the agency is excepted from the requirements of
Section 552.021.
(b) The exception to disclosure provided by Subsection (a)
does not apply to a draft grant application prepared by or for a
state agency or governmental entity with taxing authority after:
(1) the state agency or governmental entity with
taxing authority submits the grant application;
(2) the state agency or governmental entity with
taxing authority determines it will not submit the grant
application; or
(3) the deadline to submit the grant application has
passed.
SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
a request for information received by a governmental body or an
officer for public information on or after the effective date of
this Act. A request for information 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 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.