Bill Text: TX HB1913 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to public meetings of joint airport boards.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-12 - Laid on the table subject to call [HB1913 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB1913-Introduced.html
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| By: Burkett | H.B. No. 1913 | |
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| relating to public meetings of joint airport boards. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 551.001(3), Government Code, is amended | ||
| to read as follows: | ||
| (3) "Governmental body" means: | ||
| (A) a board, commission, department, committee, | ||
| or agency within the executive or legislative branch of state | ||
| government that is directed by one or more elected or appointed | ||
| members; | ||
| (B) a county commissioners court in the state; | ||
| (C) a municipal governing body in the state; | ||
| (D) 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; | ||
| (E) a school district board of trustees; | ||
| (F) a county board of school trustees; | ||
| (G) a county board of education; | ||
| (H) the governing board of a special district | ||
| created by law; | ||
| (I) a local workforce development board created | ||
| under Section 2308.253; | ||
| (J) 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; [ |
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| (K) 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; and | ||
| (L) a joint board created under Section 22.074, | ||
| Transportation Code. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter C, Chapter 551, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 551.0501 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 551.0501. JOINT BOARD: PLACE OF POSTING NOTICE. | ||
| (a) In this section, "electronic bulletin board" means an | ||
| electronic communication system that includes a perpetually | ||
| illuminated screen on which the governmental body can post messages | ||
| or notices viewable without manipulation by the public. | ||
| (b) A joint board created under Section 22.074, | ||
| Transportation Code, shall post notice of each meeting on a | ||
| physical or electronic bulletin board at a place convenient to the | ||
| public in the board's administrative offices. | ||
| SECTION 3. The heading to Section 551.056, Government Code, | ||
| is amended to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 551.056. ADDITIONAL POSTING REQUIREMENTS FOR CERTAIN | ||
| MUNICIPALITIES, COUNTIES, SCHOOL DISTRICTS, JUNIOR COLLEGE | ||
| DISTRICTS, [ |
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| BOARDS. | ||
| SECTION 4. Section 551.056(b), Government Code, is amended | ||
| to read as follows: | ||
| (b) In addition to the other place at which notice is | ||
| required to be posted by this subchapter, the following | ||
| governmental bodies and economic development corporations must | ||
| also concurrently post notice of a meeting on the Internet website | ||
| of the governmental body or economic development corporation: | ||
| (1) a municipality; | ||
| (2) a county; | ||
| (3) a school district; | ||
| (4) the governing body of a junior college or junior | ||
| college district, including a college or district that has changed | ||
| its name in accordance with Chapter 130, Education Code; | ||
| (5) a development corporation organized under the | ||
| Development Corporation Act (Subtitle C1, Title 12, Local | ||
| Government Code); [ |
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| (6) a regional mobility authority included within the | ||
| meaning of an "authority" as defined by Section 370.003, | ||
| Transportation Code; and | ||
| (7) a joint board created under Section 22.074, | ||
| Transportation Code. | ||
| SECTION 5. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
| to notice that is required to be posted on or after the effective | ||
| date of this Act. Notice that is required to be posted prior to the | ||
| effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect at that | ||
| time, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 6. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
