Update: FFOIA

posted on 4.01.2009

The Texas House of Representatives this morning passed HB 670, the Texas Free Flow of Information Act, to third reading by a vote of 146 - 2.

Rep. Debbie Riddle, R-Houston and Rep. Randy Weber, R-Pearland, voted against the bill.

The bill will have its third and final vote on Thursday.

A clarifying amendment related to grand juries was added by bill author Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer.

SDMA's Laura Prather drafted the language of the amendment.