Bill Text: TX SB373 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to Internet access to meetings of the board of directors of a regional mobility authority.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-07 - Referred to Business & Commerce [SB373 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB373-Introduced.html
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By: Hall | S.B. No. 373 |
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relating to Internet access to meetings of the board of directors of | ||
a regional mobility authority. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 551, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 551.1283 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 551.1283. GOVERNING BOARD OF REGIONAL MOBILITY | ||
AUTHORITY: INTERNET POSTING OF MEETING MATERIALS AND BROADCAST OF | ||
OPEN MEETING. (a) For a meeting of the board of a regional mobility | ||
authority governed by Chapter 370, Transportation Code, the | ||
authority shall: | ||
(1) in addition to other meeting notice requirements | ||
under Subchapter C, concurrently post notice of the meeting on the | ||
authority's Internet website; | ||
(2) post as early as practicable in advance of the | ||
meeting on the authority's Internet website any written agenda and | ||
related supplemental written materials provided by the authority to | ||
the directors for the directors' use during the meeting; | ||
(3) broadcast the meeting over the Internet in the | ||
manner prescribed by Section 551.128; and | ||
(4) record the broadcast and make that recording | ||
publicly available in an online archive located on the authority's | ||
Internet website not later than the second day after the date the | ||
meeting is held. | ||
(b) The requirements of this section and this chapter apply | ||
to a meeting of a subcommittee of a regional mobility authority | ||
board, regardless of whether a quorum of the directors is present at | ||
the meeting. | ||
SECTION 2. Sections 551.056(b) and (c), Government Code, | ||
are amended to read as follows: | ||
(b) In addition to the other place at which notice is | ||
required to be posted by this subchapter, the following | ||
governmental bodies and economic development corporations must | ||
also concurrently post notice of a meeting on the Internet website | ||
of the governmental body or economic development corporation: | ||
(1) a municipality; | ||
(2) a county; | ||
(3) a school district; | ||
(4) the governing body of a junior college or junior | ||
college district, including a college or district that has changed | ||
its name in accordance with Chapter 130, Education Code; | ||
(5) a development corporation organized under the | ||
Development Corporation Act (Subtitle C1, Title 12, Local | ||
Government Code); and | ||
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Transportation Code. | ||
(c) The following governmental bodies and economic | ||
development corporations must also concurrently post the agenda for | ||
the meeting on the Internet website of the governmental body or | ||
economic development corporation: | ||
(1) a municipality with a population of 48,000 or | ||
more; | ||
(2) a county with a population of 65,000 or more; | ||
(3) a school district that contains all or part of the | ||
area within the corporate boundaries of a municipality with a | ||
population of 48,000 or more; | ||
(4) the governing body of a junior college district, | ||
including a district that has changed its name in accordance with | ||
Chapter 130, Education Code, that contains all or part of the area | ||
within the corporate boundaries of a municipality with a population | ||
of 48,000 or more; and | ||
(5) a development corporation organized under the | ||
Development Corporation Act (Subtitle C1, Title 12, Local | ||
Government Code) that was created by or for: | ||
(A) a municipality with a population of 48,000 or | ||
more; or | ||
(B) a county or district that contains all or | ||
part of the area within the corporate boundaries of a municipality | ||
with a population of 48,000 or more[ |
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SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to a meeting of the board of directors of a regional mobility | ||
authority or a subcommittee of that board for which notice is given | ||
under Chapter 551, Government Code, on or after September 1, 2019. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |