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House Bill 3827 |
House Author: Morrison |
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Effective: 6-15-07 |
Senate Sponsor: Zaffirini |
House Bill 3827 amends the Government Code to allow a junior college district's governing board to hold an open or closed meeting by telephone conference call but only if a quorum is physically present at the location where board meetings are usually held. The bill provides that the telephone conference call meeting is subject to notice requirements applicable to other meetings, and it requires each part of the telephone conference call meeting that is required to be open to the public to be audible to the public at the location where the quorum is present. The meeting also must be tape-recorded and the recording made available to the public. The bill stipulates that a board member who participates in a meeting by telephone conference call but is not physically present at the meeting location is considered absent for purposes of individual board member attendance requirements.