Bill Text: TX SB125 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the Internet broadcast of open meetings of the Texas Funeral Service Commission.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-01-25 - Referred to Business & Commerce [SB125 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB125-Introduced.html
| 85R1429 TSR-D | ||
| By: Huffines | S.B. No. 125 | |
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| relating to the Internet broadcast of open meetings of the Texas | ||
| Funeral Service Commission. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 651, Occupations Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 651.0591 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 651.0591. INTERNET BROADCAST AND ARCHIVE OF OPEN | ||
| MEETINGS. (a) The commission shall broadcast over the Internet | ||
| live video and audio of each open meeting of the commission. The | ||
| commission shall provide access to the broadcast 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 until the second anniversary of 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, | ||
| Government Code. The notice must be posted on the commission's | ||
| Internet website within the time required for posting notice under | ||
| Subchapter C, Chapter 551, Government Code. | ||
| (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, Government Code. | ||
| (e) The commission 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 | ||
| 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 651.0591, 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. | ||
