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Enrolled Bill Summary

Enrolled Bill Summary

Legislative Session: 80(R)

Senate Bill 592

Senate Author:  Wentworth

Effective:  6-15-07

House Sponsor:  Parker


            Senate Bill 592 amends the Government Code to add facsimile transmission and electronic mail to the list of approved means by which a presiding officer of a governmental body may communicate notice of an emergency meeting of that body or the addition of an emergency item to a meeting's agenda to the news media, and removes telegraph as an acceptable method for communicating this information. The bill also adds facsimile transmission and electronic mail and removes telegraph from the methods a school district may use to provide special notice of its meetings to certain news media.