Bill Text: TX SB96 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced

Texas Senate Bill 96 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to Internet access to meetings of the board of directors of a regional mobility authority.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-01-24 - Referred to Business & Commerce [SB96 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-SB96-Introduced.html

	85R1804 JTS-D

	By: Hall	S.B. No. 96



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	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, the authority shall:
	(1) 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;
	(2) broadcast the meeting over the Internet in the
	manner prescribed by Section 551.128; and
	(3) record the broadcast and make that recording
	publicly available in an online archive located on the authority's
	Internet website not later than the 2nd 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. 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, 2017.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.