Bill Text: TX SB1732 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to a requirement that certain water districts make audio and video recordings of open meetings available on the Internet.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-09 - Referred to County Affairs [SB1732 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB1732-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to a requirement that certain water districts make audio and video recordings of open meetings available on the Internet.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-09 - Referred to County Affairs [SB1732 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB1732-Comm_Sub.html
By: Paxton | S.B. No. 1732 | |
(In the Senate - Filed March 6, 2019; March 14, 2019, read | ||
first time and referred to Committee on Business & Commerce; | ||
April 25, 2019, reported adversely, with favorable Committee | ||
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 25, 2019, | ||
sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1732 | By: Paxton |
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relating to a requirement that certain water districts make audio | ||
and video recordings of open meetings available on the Internet. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 551.128(a) and (b-1), Government Code, | ||
are amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) In this section: | ||
(1) [ |
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cooperative public computer network, popularly known as the | ||
Internet. | ||
(2) "Water district" has the meaning assigned by | ||
Section 551.131(a). | ||
(b-1) A transit authority or department subject to Chapter | ||
451, 452, 453, or 460, Transportation Code, an elected school | ||
district board of trustees for a school district that has a student | ||
enrollment of 10,000 or more, an elected governing body of a | ||
home-rule municipality that has a population of 50,000 or more, a | ||
water district that serves a population of 50,000 or more, or a | ||
county commissioners court for a county that has a population of | ||
125,000 or more shall: | ||
(1) make a video and audio recording of reasonable | ||
quality of each: | ||
(A) regularly scheduled open meeting that is not | ||
a work session or a special called meeting; and | ||
(B) open meeting that is a work session or | ||
special called meeting if: | ||
(i) the governmental body is an elected | ||
school district board of trustees for a school district that has a | ||
student enrollment of 10,000 or more; and | ||
(ii) at the work session or special called | ||
meeting, the board of trustees votes on any matter or allows public | ||
comment or testimony; and | ||
(2) make available an archived copy of the video and | ||
audio recording of each meeting described by Subdivision (1) on the | ||
Internet. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
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