HBA-ALS S.B. 852 76(R) BILL ANALYSIS Office of House Bill AnalysisS.B. 852 By: Shapleigh State Affairs 4/26/1999 Engrossed BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Under current law, private for-profit publishers of residential telephone directories are not required to include Internet listings of state agencies. S.B. 852 requires a private for-profit publisher of a residential telephone directory to include any Internet address of an Internet site maintained by a state agency. This bill provides that the Public Utility Commission's rules must require a publisher to list Internet addresses alphabetically by the subject matter of agency programs and agency name. It also requires the Records Management Interagency Coordinating Council to categorize state agency programs, state agency telephone numbers, and Internet addresses of Internet sites maintained by state agencies by subject matter as well as by agency. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that rulemaking authority previously delegated to the Public Utility Commission is modified in SECTION 1 (Section 55.203, Utilities Code) of this bill. SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS SECTION 1. Amends Section 55.203, Utilities Code, as follows: Sec. 55.203. DIRECTORY PUBLISHED BY PRIVATE PUBLISHER. Defines "Internet" in this section. Requires a private for-profit publisher of a residential telephone directory that is distributed to the public to include in the directory at minimal or no cost, a listing of any Internet address of an Internet site maintained by a state agency. Provides that the Public Utility Commission's (commission) rules must require a publisher to list Internet addresses alphabetically by the subject matter of agency programs and agency name. Requires the General Services Commission to cooperate with the commission and with publishers to ensure that Internet addresses in the directories are consistent with the categorization developed by the Records Management Interagency Coordinating Council (council) under Section 441.053 (Records Management Interagency Coordinating Council), Government Code. Redesignates Subsections (a)-(f) to Subsections (b)-(g), respectively. Makes conforming changes. SECTION 2. Amends Section 441.053, Government Code, is amended to read as follows: Sec. 441.053. RECORDS MANAGEMENT INTERAGENCY COORDINATING COUNCIL. Requires the council to categorize state agency programs, state agency telephone numbers, and Internet addresses of Internet sites maintained by state agencies by subject matter as well as by agency. Defines "Internet" in this section. Deletes the definition of "member agency." Makes conforming changes. Redesignates Subsections (j) and (k) as Subsections (a) and (b). SECTION 3. (a) Sets forth that in accordance with Section 311.031(c) (Saving Provisions), Government Code, which gives effect to a substantive amendment enacted by the same legislature that codifies the amended statute, the text of Section 55.203, Utilities Code, gives effect to changes made by Chapter 1186, Acts of the 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997. (b) Sets forth that to the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails over another Act of the 76th Legislature, Regular Session, 1999, relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted codes. SECTION 4.Effective date: September 1, 1999. SECTION 5. Emergency clause.