Bill Text: TX HB259 | 2017 | 85th Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to persons allowed to record meetings of house and senate committees.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-07-21 - Referred to House Administration [HB259 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB259-Introduced.html
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| By: Fallon | H.B. No. 259 | |
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| relating to persons allowed to record meetings of house and senate | ||
| committees. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 306, Government Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Section 306.008 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 306.008. RECORDING OF COMMITTEE MEETINGS. (a) Except | ||
| as otherwise provided by this section, any person in attendance at | ||
| an open meeting of a house or senate committee, including a public | ||
| hearing, may make an audio or visual recording of the meeting. | ||
| (b) A person may record a committee meeting held on the | ||
| floor of the house or senate chamber from a location accessible to | ||
| the person. | ||
| (c) A person may not record a committee meeting in a manner | ||
| that disrupts the meeting or unreasonably obstructs the view of | ||
| other persons attending the meeting. The presiding officer of a | ||
| meeting may enforce this subsection but may not prohibit a person | ||
| from recording an open meeting in a nondisruptive manner. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect December 1, 2017. | ||
