Bill Text: TX SB1452 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the application of the open meetings law to district judges performing certain management or administrative functions.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-20 - Referred to Business & Commerce [SB1452 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB1452-Introduced.html
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| By: Zaffirini | S.B. No. 1452 | |
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| relating to the application of the open meetings law to district | ||
| judges performing certain management or administrative functions. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 551.001(3), Government Code, is amended | ||
| to read as follows: | ||
| (3) "Governmental body" means: | ||
| (A) a board, commission, department, committee, | ||
| or agency within the executive or legislative branch of state | ||
| government that is directed by one or more elected or appointed | ||
| members; | ||
| (B) a county commissioners court in the state; | ||
| (C) a municipal governing body in the state; | ||
| (D) a deliberative body that has rulemaking or | ||
| quasi-judicial power and that is classified as a department, | ||
| agency, or political subdivision of a county or municipality; | ||
| (E) a school district board of trustees; | ||
| (F) a county board of school trustees; | ||
| (G) a county board of education; | ||
| (H) the governing board of a special district | ||
| created by law; | ||
| (I) a local workforce development board created | ||
| under Section 2308.253; | ||
| (J) a nonprofit corporation that is eligible to | ||
| receive funds under the federal community services block grant | ||
| program and that is authorized by this state to serve a geographic | ||
| area of the state; | ||
| (K) a nonprofit corporation organized under | ||
| Chapter 67, Water Code, that provides a water supply or wastewater | ||
| service, or both, and is exempt from ad valorem taxation under | ||
| Section 11.30, Tax Code; [ |
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| (L) a joint board created under Section 22.074, | ||
| Transportation Code; and | ||
| (M) a gathering of two or more district judges | ||
| performing any management or administrative function that does not | ||
| involve the adjudication of an individual case. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
