By: Watson, Buckingham	S.B. No. 347
	(In the Senate - Filed December 16, 2016; January 30, 2017,
	read first time and referred to Committee on Business & Commerce;
	March 20, 2017, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
	Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0; March 20, 2017,
	sent to printer.)
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	COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 347	By:  Creighton

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the applicability of open meetings and public
	information laws to regional water planning groups and their
	committees.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Section 16.053(h), Water Code, is amended by
	adding Subdivision (12) to read as follows:
	(12)  Each regional water planning group and any
	committee or subcommittee of a regional water planning group are
	subject to Chapters 551 and 552, Government Code.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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