Bill Text: TX SB679 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to public meetings of joint airport boards.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-05-23 - Effective immediately [SB679 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB679-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to public meetings of joint airport boards.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-05-23 - Effective immediately [SB679 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB679-Comm_Sub.html
By: Nelson | S.B. No. 679 | |
(In the Senate - Filed February 20, 2015; February 24, 2015, | ||
read first time and referred to Committee on Business and Commerce; | ||
March 23, 2015, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9, | ||
Nays 0; March 23, 2015, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to public meetings of joint airport boards. | ||
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; [ |
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(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; and | ||
(L) a joint board created under Section 22.074, | ||
Transportation Code. | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter C, Chapter 551, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 551.0501 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 551.0501. JOINT BOARD: PLACE OF POSTING NOTICE. | ||
(a) In this section, "electronic bulletin board" means an | ||
electronic communication system that includes a perpetually | ||
illuminated screen on which the governmental body can post messages | ||
or notices viewable without manipulation by the public. | ||
(b) A joint board created under Section 22.074, | ||
Transportation Code, shall post notice of each meeting on a | ||
physical or electronic bulletin board at a place convenient to the | ||
public in the board's administrative offices. | ||
SECTION 3. The heading to Section 551.056, Government Code, | ||
is amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 551.056. ADDITIONAL POSTING REQUIREMENTS FOR CERTAIN | ||
MUNICIPALITIES, COUNTIES, SCHOOL DISTRICTS, JUNIOR COLLEGE | ||
DISTRICTS, [ |
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BOARDS. | ||
SECTION 4. Section 551.056(b), Government Code, is 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); [ |
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(6) a regional mobility authority included within the | ||
meaning of an "authority" as defined by Section 370.003, | ||
Transportation Code; and | ||
(7) a joint board created under Section 22.074, | ||
Transportation Code. | ||
SECTION 5. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to notice that is required to be posted on or after the effective | ||
date of this Act. Notice that is required to be posted prior to the | ||
effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect at that | ||
time, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 6. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
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