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Wednesday • April 12, 1995
The Battalion • Page 9
House State Affairs Committee
considers open records legislation
3 Bill proposed to keep
jovernmental bodies
rom suing people who
Request information.
i AUSTIN (AP) — Bringing
the Texas open records law into
the high-tech age and forcing
the government to produce in
formation more rapidly are the
targets of legislation considered
Tuesday by the House State Af
fairs Committee.
A bill by Rep. Sylvester
Turner, D-Houston, would
change the term “open records”
to “public information” in the
22-year-old open records law,
and make it clear that the
statute applies to computer, au
dio and video data as well as
data on paper. The measure
was left pending.
“We fully understand now
that information is not just put
an a piece of paper, that now
it’s kept on disk or electronics,”
Turner said. “The presumption
is now that you provide the in
formation in whatever form it’s
in.”
Turner’s measure also would
prohibit governmental bodies
from suing people who request
information.
In September 1993, Robert
Lett was sued by the Klein Inde
pendent School District after he
asked for a teacher’s notes con
cerning his daughter’s conduct.
The district contended the
notes weren’t public. But after
Attorney General Dan Morales
ruled they were, the district
sued Lett and Morales, then
dropped the attorney general
from the lawsuit.
Under Turner’s bill, any gov
ernmental body seeking to
withhold information would be
required to sue the attorney
general, not the individual re
questing the information.
Lett told the committee he
has had to pay large legal bills
to maintain his fight for the in
formation. The case is still
pending.
“No one should have to go
through what I have gone
through,” Lett said.
Turner’s bill also would require
the state General Services Com
mission to adopt rules for state
and local agencies to follow in set
ting charges for copies of public
information. It also would limit
charges to the actual cost of pro
ducing the data.
A governmental body could
request an exemption from the
commission’s rules to charge
additional fees but would have
to state a specific reason for the
request in writing.
The bill is supported by
Texas Media, a group of news
paper and broadcast media rep
resentatives that helped draft
the measure along with public
watchdog group Common
Cause.
Sen. Hutchison endorses moratorium
□ Clinton signed legis-
ation imposing freeze
on Endangered Species
Act.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
federal government now is en
joined from extending new En
dangered Species Act protections
to vulnerable plant and animal
life through September.
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison on
Tuesday expressed satisfaction
that President Clinton had signed
legislation imposing her Endan
gered Species Act freeze.
“This is a red-letter day for
those of us who pledged to
change the direction of environ
mental regulation in this coun
try and get it back on course,”
the Texas Republican said a day
after Clinton’s action.
“Property owners in Texas
and the rest of the country will
be relieved to know that they
will have a breather from con
stant assaults on their private
property rights that have been
the result of too rigorous enforce
ment of the Endan
gered Species Act,”
she added.
Hutchison
am
. fj';- •• • ,
successfully attached her morato
rium to a S3.1 billion defense sup
plemental spending bill approved
last week by Congress and signed
into law Monday by Clinton.
In addition to the freeze, Mrs.
Hutchison’s legislation slashes
$1.5 million from the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service’s current
budget to prevent it from making
any new Endangered Species Act
listings through the end of the fis
cal year. Sept. 30.
Clinton expressed reservations
about the Endangered Species Act
moratorium, saying it would
weaken the administration’s abili
ty to identify endangered species.
“These provisions
will impair the ad-
mm ministration’s abili-
ty to proceed on its
— recently an
nounced package
of reform principles and conse
quently, our ability to respond
to the needs and concerns of
private landowners,” the presi
dent said in a statement.
April 22, 1 995 • Starlight Ballroom • Snook, Texas
Register Your Chili Team Now!
The Texas A&M chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, The Texas A&M United Way Committee,
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The event will feature a chili cook-off to be judged by local celebrities, beer to be provided by
Jack Hilliard distributors and live performances by local bands. Head West and Jason Manning,
as well as a special performance by:
The Bellamy Brothers
The Starlight Ballroom is located on the Snook Rodeo Grounds off of FM 60, 1 5 miles west of
College Station. The time schedule is as follows:**
7:00 a.m. check-in begins
11:00 a.m. gates open to the public
2:00 p.m. judging by local celebrities
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The contest will consist of corporate sponsored teams ($60 entry fee) and private sponsored teams
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Please Return This Portion With Entry Fee
Registration Deadline: April 15, 1995
Team Name:
Team Members:
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Additional team members require an additional charge. Please read information above and
include their names and phone numbers on the back of this portion of the entry form.
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