Bill Text: TX HB231 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced

Texas House Bill 231 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to the applicability of the public information law to independent organizations certified to manage a power region.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-07-09 - Filed [HB231 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-HB231-Introduced.html

	87S10251 BEF-D

	By: Johnson of Dallas	H.B. No. 231



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the applicability of the public information law to
	independent organizations certified to manage a power region.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 552.003(1), Government Code, is amended
	to read as follows:
	(1) "Governmental body":
	(A) means:
	(i) a board, commission, department,
	committee, institution, agency, or office that is within or is
	created by the executive or legislative branch of state government
	and that is directed by one or more elected or appointed members;
	(ii) a county commissioners court in the
	state;
	(iii) a municipal governing body in the
	state;
	(iv) a deliberative body that has
	rulemaking or quasi-judicial power and that is classified as a
	department, agency, or political subdivision of a county or
	municipality;
	(v) a school district board of trustees;
	(vi) a county board of school trustees;
	(vii) a county board of education;
	(viii) the governing board of a special
	district;
	(ix) the governing body of a nonprofit
	corporation organized under Chapter 67, Water Code, that provides a
	water supply or wastewater service, or both, and is exempt from ad
	valorem taxation under Section 11.30, Tax Code;
	(x) a local workforce development board
	created under Section 2308.253;
	(xi) a nonprofit corporation that is
	eligible to receive funds under the federal community services
	block grant program and that is authorized by this state to serve a
	geographic area of the state;
	(xii) a confinement facility operated under
	a contract with any division of the Texas Department of Criminal
	Justice;
	(xiii) a civil commitment housing facility
	owned, leased, or operated by a vendor under contract with the state
	as provided by Chapter 841, Health and Safety Code;
	(xiv) an entity that receives public funds
	in the current or preceding state fiscal year to manage the daily
	operations or restoration of the Alamo, or an entity that oversees
	such an entity; [~~and~~]
	(xv) the part, section, or portion of an
	organization, corporation, commission, committee, institution, or
	agency that spends or that is supported in whole or in part by
	public funds; and
	(xvi) an independent organization
	established under Section 39.151, Utilities Code; and
	(B) does not include:
	(i) the judiciary; or
	(ii) an economic development entity whose
	mission or purpose is to develop and promote the economic growth of
	a state agency or political subdivision with which the entity
	contracts if:
	(a) the entity does not receive $1
	million or more in public funds from a single state agency or
	political subdivision in the current or preceding state fiscal
	year; or
	(b) the entity:
	(1) either:
	(A) does not have the
	authority to make decisions or recommendations on behalf of a state
	agency or political subdivision regarding tax abatements or tax
	incentives; or
	(B) does not require an
	officer of the state agency or political subdivision to hold office
	as a member of the board of directors of the entity;
	(2) does not use staff or office
	space of the state agency or political subdivision for no or nominal
	consideration, unless the space is available to the public;
	(3) to a reasonable degree,
	tracks the entity's receipt and expenditure of public funds
	separately from the entity's receipt and expenditure of private
	funds; and
	(4) provides at least quarterly
	public reports to the state agency or political subdivision
	regarding work performed on behalf of the state agency or political
	subdivision.
	SECTION 2. (a) Chapter 552, Government Code, applies to a
	request for public information sent to or received by a
	governmental body, as defined by Section 552.003(1)(A)(xvi),
	Government Code, as added by this Act, on or after February 1, 2021.
	(b) For the purpose of computing a deadline under Chapter
	552, Government Code, or a rule adopted under that chapter, a
	request for public information described by Subsection (a) of this
	section that was sent or received on or after February 1, 2021, and
	before the effective date of this Act is considered to be sent and
	received on 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 on the 91st day after the last day of the
	legislative session.