88R2544 TJB-D
	By: Middleton	S.B. No. 933

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the definition of a governmental body for the purposes
	of the public information law.
	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)  a nonprofit state association or
	organization primarily composed of similarly situated political
	subdivisions; 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.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
	to a request for public information received on or after the
	effective date of this Act. A request for public information
	received before the effective date of this Act is governed by the
	law in effect when the request was received, and the former law is
	continued in effect for that purpose.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.