Bill Text: TX HB2668 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to requirements applicable to meetings of the governing board of certain junior college districts.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB2668 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB2668-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to requirements applicable to meetings of the governing board of certain junior college districts.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB2668 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB2668-Comm_Sub.html
By: Vo (Senate Sponsor - Davis) | H.B. No. 2668 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 8, 2013; | ||
May 9, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on Open | ||
Government; May 17, 2013, reported favorably by the following | ||
vote: Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 17, 2013, sent to printer.) |
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relating to requirements applicable to meetings of the governing | ||
board of certain junior college districts. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 551, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 551.1282 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 551.1282. GOVERNING BOARD OF JUNIOR COLLEGE DISTRICT: | ||
INTERNET POSTING OF MEETING MATERIALS AND BROADCAST OF OPEN | ||
MEETING. (a) This section applies only to the governing board of a | ||
junior college district with a total student enrollment of more | ||
than 20,000 in any semester of the preceding academic year. | ||
(b) A governing board to which this section applies, for any | ||
regularly scheduled meeting of the governing board for which notice | ||
is required under this chapter, shall: | ||
(1) post as early as practicable in advance of the | ||
meeting on the Internet website of the district any written agenda | ||
and related supplemental written materials provided by the district | ||
to the board members for the members' use during the meeting; | ||
(2) broadcast the meeting, other than any portions of | ||
the meeting closed to the public as authorized by law, 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 district's | ||
Internet website. | ||
(c) Subsection (b)(1) does not apply to written materials | ||
that the general counsel or other appropriate attorney for the | ||
district certifies are confidential or may be withheld from public | ||
disclosure under Chapter 552. | ||
(d) The governing board of a junior college district is not | ||
required to comply with the requirements of this section if that | ||
compliance is not possible because of an act of God, force majeure, | ||
or a similar cause not reasonably within the governing board's | ||
control. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to a meeting of the governing board of a junior college district for | ||
which notice is given under Chapter 551, Government Code, on or | ||
after January 1, 2014. | ||
SECTION 3. 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, 2013. | ||
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