73R372 JD-F 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 a comprehensive zoning plan or zoning regulations for 1-11 the municipality, or a committee of the board or commission that 1-12 includes one or more members of the board or commission, is subject 1-13 to the open meetings law, Chapter 271, Acts of the 60th 1-14 Legislature, Regular Session, 1967 (Article 6252-17, Vernon's Texas 1-15 Civil Statutes), regardless of whether the board, commission, or 1-16 committee has rulemaking or quasi-judicial powers or functions only 1-17 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. 1-23 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 1-24 Amend H.B. 78 as follows: 2-1 (1) On page 1, line 10, strike the word "a" and replace with 2-2 the words "an initial". 2-3 (2) On page 1, line 10, insert the word "initial" between 2-4 the words "or" and "zoning". 2-5 Goodman