Why are Economic Development Corps not subject to Public Information Act of Texas?

I will report back on the may issues being heard in this committee meeting regarding the Texas Public Information Act. TPIA, is very important in the passing of information to the public from taxpayer funded entities such as city, county, state government respectively.What is really foul though, is that an economic development corporation that receives tax-payer funds is not subject or will not be in accords with this proposed bill

SENATE

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

COMMITTEE:    Open Government, Select  TIME & DATE:  8:30 AM, Thursday, April 07, 2011  PLACE:        2E.20 (Betty King Cmte. Rm.)  CHAIR:        Senator Jeff Wentworth

The Senate Select Committee on Open Government will meet to consider the following:

SB 375        Wentworth               Relating to categories of information presumed to be public under the public information law.

SB 602        Rodriguez               Relating to allowing a governmental body to redact certain personal information under the public information law without the necessity of requesting a decision from the attorney general and the calculation of certain deadlines under the public information law.

SB 933        Ellis                   Relating to the electronic submission of certain documents to the attorney general and the submission of certain documents by the attorney general; imposing certain fees.

SB 1130       Hegar                   Relating to the exception from required public disclosure of certain records of an appraisal district.

SB 1269       Wentworth               Relating to honorariums offered to and accepted by public servants.

SB 1442       Shapiro | et al.        Relating to the application requirements for a local project permit.

SB 1638       Davis                   Relating to the exception of certain personal information from required disclosure under the public information law.

SB 1692       Lucio                   Relating to municipal and county budgets on the Internet.

SB 1829       Wentworth               Relating to excluding certain entities from the definition of a governmental body for the purposes of the public information law.