Bill Text: TX SB121 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the Internet broadcast of open meetings of the Texas Board of Nursing.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-01-25 - Referred to Business & Commerce [SB121 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB121-Introduced.html
| 85R1427 TSR-D | ||
| By: Huffines | S.B. No. 121 | |
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| relating to the Internet broadcast of open meetings of the Texas | ||
| Board of Nursing. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 301, Occupations Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 301.0581 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 301.0581. INTERNET BROADCAST AND ARCHIVE OF OPEN | ||
| MEETINGS. (a) The board shall broadcast over the Internet live | ||
| video and audio of each open meeting of the board. The board shall | ||
| provide access to the broadcast on the board's Internet website. | ||
| (b) Not later than the seventh day after the date an open | ||
| meeting is broadcast under this section, the board shall make | ||
| available through the board's Internet website archived video and | ||
| audio of the open meeting. The board shall maintain the archived | ||
| video and audio of the open meeting on the board's Internet website | ||
| until the second anniversary of the date the archived video and | ||
| audio was first made available on the website. | ||
| (c) The board shall provide on the board's Internet website | ||
| the same notice of the open meeting that the board is required to | ||
| post under Subchapter C, Chapter 551, Government Code. The notice | ||
| must be posted on the board's Internet website within the time | ||
| required for posting notice under Subchapter C, Chapter 551, | ||
| Government Code. | ||
| (d) The board may use for an Internet broadcast of an open | ||
| meeting of the board a room made available to the board on request | ||
| in any state building, as that term is defined by Section 2165.301, | ||
| Government Code. | ||
| (e) The board is exempt from the requirements of this | ||
| section to the extent a catastrophe, as defined by Section | ||
| 551.0411, Government Code, or a technical breakdown prevents the | ||
| board from complying with this section. Following the catastrophe | ||
| or technical breakdown, the board 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 301.0581, Occupations 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. | ||
