Bill Text: TX SB335 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled

Texas Senate Bill 335 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to meetings of the Family and Protective Services Council broadcast over the Internet.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2023-06-18 - Vetoed by the Governor [SB335 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB335-Enrolled.html



	S.B. No. 335




	AN ACT
	relating to meetings of the Family and Protective Services Council
	broadcast over the Internet.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 40.026, Human Resources Code, is amended
	by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
	(d) For each open meeting of the council, the department
	shall:
	(1) broadcast over the Internet live video and audio
	of the meeting and provide access to the broadcast on the
	department's Internet website; or
	(2) not later than the end of the second business day
	after the day a meeting is held, make available through the
	department's Internet website archived video and audio of the
	meeting until the second anniversary of the date the archived video
	and audio was first made available on the website.
	SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
	a Family and Protective Services Council meeting held on or after
	the effective date of this Act. A meeting held before the effective
	date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date of the
	meeting, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.





	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House

	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 335 passed the Senate on
	April 18, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.


	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate

	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 335 passed the House on
	May 24, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 119, Nays 19, one
	present not voting.


	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House



	Approved:

	______________________________
	Date


	______________________________
	Governor