Bill Text: TX SB171 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the Internet broadcast of open meetings of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-01-25 - Referred to Business & Commerce [SB171 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB171-Introduced.html
| 85R2609 MCK-D | ||
| By: Huffines | S.B. No. 171 | |
|
|
||
|
|
||
| relating to the Internet broadcast of open meetings of the Texas | ||
| Alcoholic Beverage Commission. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 5, Alcoholic Beverage | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 5.071 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 5.071. INTERNET BROADCAST AND ARCHIVE OF OPEN | ||
| MEETINGS. (a) The commission shall: | ||
| (1) broadcast over the Internet live video and audio | ||
| of each meeting of the commission that is an open meeting subject to | ||
| Chapter 551, Government Code; | ||
| (2) make a video and audio recording of reasonable | ||
| quality of the broadcast; and | ||
| (3) provide access to the archived video and audio of | ||
| the meeting on the commission's Internet website. | ||
| (b) Not later than the seventh day after the date an open | ||
| meeting of the commission is broadcast under this section, the | ||
| commission shall make available through the commission's Internet | ||
| website archived video and audio of the meeting. The commission | ||
| shall maintain the archived video and audio of the 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 an open meeting of the | ||
| commission 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 that subchapter. | ||
| (d) The commission may use for an Internet broadcast of an | ||
| open meeting of the commission under this section 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 5.071, Alcoholic Beverage 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. | ||
