Bill Text: TX HB3440 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Engrossed
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Bill Title: Relating to the governmental bodies required to post on the Internet agendas for meetings under the open meetings law.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-13 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB3440 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3440-Engrossed.html
Bill Title: Relating to the governmental bodies required to post on the Internet agendas for meetings under the open meetings law.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-13 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB3440 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3440-Engrossed.html
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By: Canales | H.B. No. 3440 |
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relating to the governmental bodies required to post on the | ||
Internet agendas for meetings under the open meetings law. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 551.056(b), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(b) In addition to the other place at which notice or an | ||
agenda of a meeting is required to be posted by this subchapter, the | ||
following governmental bodies and economic development | ||
corporations must also concurrently post notice of a meeting and | ||
the agenda for the 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); | ||
(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 2. Section 551.056(c), Government Code, is | ||
repealed. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 551.056(b), Government Code, as amended | ||
by this Act, applies only to an open meeting held on or after the | ||
effective date of this Act. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |