By Danburg H.B. No. 78 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the application of the open meetings law to certain 1-3 municipal boards, commissions, and committees. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 211, Local Government Code, 1-6 is amended by adding Section 211.0075 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 211.0075. COMPLIANCE WITH OPEN MEETINGS LAW. A board 1-8 or commission established by an ordinance or resolution adopted by 1-9 the governing body of a municipality to assist the governing body 1-10 in developing an initial comprehensive zoning plan or initial 1-11 zoning regulations for the municipality, or a committee of the 1-12 board or commission that includes one or more members of the board 1-13 or commission, is subject to the open meetings law, Chapter 271, 1-14 Acts of the 60th Legislature, Regular Session, 1967 (Article 1-15 6252-17, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), regardless of whether the 1-16 board, commission, or committee has rulemaking or quasi-judicial 1-17 powers or functions only in an advisory capacity. 1-18 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.