Bill Text: TX HB638 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a requirement that certain water districts make audio and video recordings of open meetings available on the Internet.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [HB638 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB638-Introduced.html
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| By: Tepper | H.B. No. 638 | |
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| relating to a requirement that certain water districts make audio | ||
| and video recordings of open meetings available on the Internet. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 551.128(b-1), Government Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (b-1) A transit authority or department subject to Chapter | ||
| 451, 452, 453, or 460, Transportation Code, a district subject to | ||
| Chapter 36, 49, or 60, Water Code, an elected school district board | ||
| of trustees for a school district that has a student enrollment of | ||
| 10,000 or more, an elected governing body of a home-rule | ||
| municipality that has a population of 50,000 or more, or a county | ||
| commissioners court for a county that has a population of 125,000 or | ||
| more shall: | ||
| (1) make a video and audio recording of reasonable | ||
| quality of each: | ||
| (A) regularly scheduled open meeting that is not | ||
| a work session or a special called meeting; and | ||
| (B) open meeting that is a work session or | ||
| special called meeting if: | ||
| (i) the governmental body is an elected | ||
| school district board of trustees for a school district that has a | ||
| student enrollment of 10,000 or more; and | ||
| (ii) at the work session or special called | ||
| meeting, the board of trustees votes on any matter or allows public | ||
| comment or testimony; and | ||
| (2) make available an archived copy of the video and | ||
| audio recording of each meeting described by Subdivision (1) on the | ||
| Internet. | ||
| SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
| an open meeting held on or after the effective date of this Act. An | ||
| open meeting that is held before the effective date of this Act is | ||
| governed by the law in effect on the date of the open meeting, and | ||
| the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
