Bill Text: TX HB2317 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the requirements for meetings of certain special districts.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-06 - Referred to County Affairs [HB2317 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2317-Introduced.html
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By: Toth | H.B. No. 2317 |
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relating to the requirements for meetings of certain special | ||
districts. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 49.062, Water Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsections (b) and (c) and adding Subsections (b-1), | ||
(b-2), and (b-3) to read as follows: | ||
(b) The board shall designate one or more places inside or | ||
outside the district for conducting the meetings of the board. The | ||
meeting place may be a private residence or office, provided that | ||
the board, in its order establishing the meeting place, declares | ||
the same to be a public place and invites the public to attend any | ||
meeting of the board. | ||
(b-1) The designated place must provide district residents | ||
a reasonable opportunity to attend board meetings. | ||
(b-2) If the board establishes a meeting place or places | ||
outside the district: | ||
(1) the place or places must be located within 10 miles | ||
of the district boundaries; and | ||
(2) the board [ |
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or locations by filing a true copy of the resolution establishing | ||
the location or locations of the meeting place or places with the | ||
commission and also by publishing notice of the location or | ||
locations in a newspaper of general circulation in the district. | ||
(b-3) If the location of any of the meeting places outside | ||
the district is changed, notice of the change shall be given in the | ||
same manner. | ||
(c) After at least 25 qualified electors are residing in a | ||
district, on the written request of at least five of those electors | ||
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provide district residents a reasonable opportunity to attend | ||
district meetings, the board shall determine whether [ |
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meeting place [ |
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reasonable opportunity to attend district meetings. On the board's | ||
failure to designate a different [ |
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place to provide district residents a reasonable opportunity to | ||
attend district meetings [ |
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petition the commission to designate a different location. If the | ||
commission [ |
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district deprives the residents of a reasonable opportunity to | ||
attend district meetings, the commission may designate a meeting | ||
place inside or outside the district which is reasonably available | ||
to the public and require that the meetings be held at that [ |
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place. After the next election, the board may designate different | ||
meeting places, including one located outside the boundaries of the | ||
district. | ||
SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
an open meeting held on or after the effective date of this Act. An | ||
open meeting that is held before the effective date of this Act is | ||
governed by the law in effect on the date of the open meeting, and | ||
the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |