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 Texas Statutes (Last Updated: January 4, 2014)
 GOVERNMENT CODE
 Title 5. OPEN GOVERNMENT; ETHICS
 Subtitle A. OPEN GOVERNMENT
 Chapter 552. PUBLIC INFORMATION  
 Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS  

  Sec. 552.003. DEFINITIONS    

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  • In this chapter:

    (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; and

    (xii) 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

    (B) does not include the judiciary.

    (2) "Manipulation" means the process of modifying, reordering, or decoding of information with human intervention.

    (3) "Processing" means the execution of a sequence of coded instructions by a computer producing a result.

    (4) "Programming" means the process of producing a sequence of coded instructions that can be executed by a computer.

    (5) "Public funds" means funds of the state or of a governmental subdivision of the state.

    (6) "Requestor" means a person who submits a request to a governmental body for inspection or copies of public information.

Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 268, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993. Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 1035, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1995; Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 62, Sec. 18.24, eff. Sept. 1, 1999; Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 633, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 2001; Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1004, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 2001; Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1276, Sec. 9.014, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.