Bill Text: TX SB118 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the Internet broadcast of open meetings of the Texas Board of Criminal Justice.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-01-25 - Referred to Business & Commerce [SB118 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB118-Introduced.html
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| By: Huffines | S.B. No. 118 | |
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| relating to the Internet broadcast of open meetings of the Texas | ||
| Board of Criminal Justice. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 492, Government Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Section 492.0061 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 492.0061. INTERNET BROADCAST AND ARCHIVE OF OPEN | ||
| MEETINGS. (a) The department shall broadcast over the Internet | ||
| live video and audio of each open meeting of the board. The | ||
| department shall provide access to the broadcast on the | ||
| department's Internet website. | ||
| (b) Not later than the seventh day after the date an open | ||
| meeting is broadcast under this section, the department shall make | ||
| available through the department's Internet website archived video | ||
| and audio of the open meeting. The department shall maintain the | ||
| archived video and audio of the open meeting on the department's | ||
| Internet website until the second anniversary of the date the | ||
| archived video and audio was first made available on the website. | ||
| (c) The department shall provide on the department's | ||
| Internet website the same notice of the open meeting that the board | ||
| is required to post under Subchapter C, Chapter 551. The notice | ||
| must be posted on the department's Internet website within the time | ||
| required for posting notice under Subchapter C, Chapter 551. | ||
| (d) The department may use for an Internet broadcast of an | ||
| open meeting of the board a room made available to the department on | ||
| request in any state building, as that term is defined by Section | ||
| 2165.301. | ||
| (e) The department is exempt from the requirements of this | ||
| section to the extent a catastrophe, as defined by Section | ||
| 551.0411, or a technical breakdown prevents the department from | ||
| complying with this section. Following the catastrophe or | ||
| technical breakdown, the department shall make all reasonable | ||
| efforts to make the required video and audio of the open meeting | ||
| available in a timely manner. | ||
| (f) The board shall consider contracting through | ||
| competitive bidding with a private individual or entity to | ||
| broadcast and archive an open meeting subject to this section to | ||
| minimize the cost of complying with this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 492.0061, Government Code, as added by | ||
| this Act, applies only to an open meeting held on or after September | ||
| 1, 2019. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
