Bill Text: TX SB119 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the Internet broadcast of open meetings of the Texas Lottery Commission.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-01-25 - Referred to Business & Commerce [SB119 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB119-Introduced.html
| 85R929 GCB-D | ||
| By: Huffines | S.B. No. 119 | |
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| relating to the Internet broadcast of open meetings of the Texas | ||
| Lottery Commission. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 467, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 467.0301 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 467.0301. INTERNET BROADCAST AND ARCHIVE OF OPEN | ||
| MEETINGS. (a) The commission shall: | ||
| (1) broadcast over the Internet live video and audio | ||
| of each open meeting of the commission; | ||
| (2) make a video and audio recording of reasonable | ||
| quality of the broadcast; and | ||
| (3) provide access to the archived video and audio on | ||
| the commission's Internet website. | ||
| (b) Not later than the seventh day after the date an open | ||
| meeting is broadcast under this section, the commission shall make | ||
| available through the commission's Internet website archived video | ||
| and audio of the open meeting. The commission shall maintain the | ||
| archived video and audio of the open meeting on the commission's | ||
| Internet website for not less than two years after the date the | ||
| archived video and audio was first made available on the website. | ||
| (c) The commission shall provide on the commission's | ||
| Internet website the same notice of the open meeting that the | ||
| commission is required to post under Subchapter C, Chapter 551. The | ||
| notice must be posted on the commission's Internet website within | ||
| the time required for posting notice under Subchapter C, Chapter | ||
| 551. | ||
| (d) The commission may use for an Internet broadcast of an | ||
| open meeting of the commission a room made available to the | ||
| commission on request in any state building, as that term is defined | ||
| by Section 2165.301. | ||
| (e) The commission 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 commission from | ||
| complying with this section. Following the catastrophe or | ||
| technical breakdown, the commission shall make all reasonable | ||
| efforts to make the required video and audio of the open meeting | ||
| available in a timely manner. | ||
| (f) The commission 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 467.0301, 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. | ||
