Bill Text: TX SB933 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the location of meetings of the board of directors of a municipal utility district.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-27 - Filed [SB933 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SB933-Introduced.html
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By: Hall | S.B. No. 933 |
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relating to the location of meetings of the board of directors of a | ||
municipal utility district. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 54, Water Code, is amended | ||
by adding Section 54.103 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 54.103. MEETINGS. (a) A regular or special meeting of | ||
the board must be held: | ||
(1) if less than 50 percent of the land area inside a | ||
district has been developed, at a publicly accessible location: | ||
(A) inside the district; or | ||
(B) not more than 10 miles outside the district; | ||
or | ||
(2) if at least 50 percent of the land area inside a | ||
district has been developed and except as provided by Subsection | ||
(b), at a publicly accessible location inside the district. | ||
(b) If at least 50 percent of the land area inside a district | ||
has been developed, the board may hold a regular or special meeting | ||
of the board at a publicly accessible location not more than 10 | ||
miles outside the district if five qualified electors petition the | ||
board to designate a location outside the district. | ||
(c) This section does not prohibit the board from holding an | ||
open or closed meeting by telephone conference call or video | ||
conference call in accordance with Chapter 551, Government Code. | ||
SECTION 2. 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, 2025. |