Government Code §552.003

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. (2-a) "Official business" means any matter over which a governmental body has any authority, administrative duties, or advisory duties. (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.