Bill Text: TX HB3259 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the use of audiovisual technology during meetings by the Texas Water Development Board and the Water Conservation Advisory Council.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-04-17 - Received from the House [HB3259 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3259-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the use of audiovisual technology during meetings by the Texas Water Development Board and the Water Conservation Advisory Council.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-04-17 - Received from the House [HB3259 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3259-Introduced.html
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By: Rogers | H.B. No. 3259 |
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relating to the use of audiovisual technology during meetings by | ||
the Texas Water Development Board and the Water Conservation | ||
Advisory Council. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 6.060, Water Code, is amended by adding | ||
Subsection (d) to read as follows: | ||
(d) The board may allow a member of the public to testify at | ||
a board meeting from a remote location by: | ||
(1) telephone conference call, if the voice of each | ||
member of the public testifying by telephone conference call is | ||
audible to each other participant while the testifying participant | ||
is speaking; or | ||
(2) videoconference call in accordance with Section | ||
551.127, Government Code. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 10.007, Water Code, is amended by adding | ||
Subsection (c) to read as follows: | ||
(c) The council may hold an open or closed meeting by | ||
videoconference call in accordance with Section 551.127(c), | ||
Government Code. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |