Bill Text: TX HB523 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled

Texas House Bill 523 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to the requirement that certain elected school district boards make audio and video recordings of certain work sessions and special called meetings available on the Internet.

Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 6-1)

Status: (Passed) 2017-06-15 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB523 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB523-Enrolled.html



	H.B. No. 523




	AN ACT
	relating to the requirement that certain elected school district
	boards make audio and video recordings of certain work sessions and
	special called meetings available on the Internet.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 551.128(b-1), Government Code, is
	amended to read as follows:
	(b-1) A transit authority or department subject to Chapter
	451, 452, 453, or 460, Transportation Code, an elected school
	district board of trustees for a school district that has a student
	enrollment of 10,000 or more, an elected governing body of a
	home-rule municipality that has a population of 50,000 or more, or a
	county commissioners court for a county that has a population of
	125,000 or more shall:
	(1) make a video and audio recording of reasonable
	quality of each:
	(A) regularly scheduled open meeting that is not
	a work session or a special called meeting; and
	(B) open meeting that is a work session or
	special called meeting if:
	(i) the governmental body is an elected
	school district board of trustees for a school district that has a
	student enrollment of 10,000 or more; and
	(ii) at the work session or special called
	meeting, the board of trustees votes on any matter or allows public
	comment or testimony; and
	(2) make available an archived copy of the video and
	audio recording of each meeting described by Subdivision (1) on the
	Internet.
	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, 2017.


	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 523 was passed by the House on May 8,
	2017, by the following vote: Yeas 137, Nays 10, 1 present, not
	voting.

	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 523 was passed by the Senate on May
	24, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1.

	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	APPROVED: _____________________
	Date

	_____________________
	Governor