1-1  By:  Danburg (Senate Sponsor - Brown)                   H.B. No. 78
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House April 1, 1993;
    1-3  April 5, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on State
    1-4  Affairs; May 10, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote:
    1-5  Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 10, 1993, sent to printer.)
    1-6                            COMMITTEE VOTE
    1-7                          Yea     Nay      PNV      Absent 
    1-8        Harris of Dallas   x                               
    1-9        Rosson             x                               
   1-10        Carriker                                       x   
   1-11        Henderson                                      x   
   1-12        Leedom                                         x   
   1-13        Lucio              x                               
   1-14        Luna               x                               
   1-15        Nelson             x                               
   1-16        Patterson          x                               
   1-17        Shelley            x                               
   1-18        Sibley             x                               
   1-19        West               x                               
   1-20        Whitmire                                       x   
   1-21                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-22                                AN ACT
   1-23  relating to the application of the open meetings law to certain
   1-24  municipal boards, commissions, and committees.
   1-25        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-26        SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 211, Local Government Code,
   1-27  is amended by adding Section 211.0075 to read as follows:
   1-28        Sec. 211.0075.  COMPLIANCE WITH OPEN MEETINGS LAW.  A board
   1-29  or commission established by an ordinance or resolution adopted by
   1-30  the governing body of a municipality to assist the governing body
   1-31  in developing an initial comprehensive zoning plan or initial
   1-32  zoning regulations for the municipality, or a committee of the
   1-33  board or commission that includes one or more members of the board
   1-34  or commission, is subject to the open meetings law, Chapter 271,
   1-35  Acts of the 60th Legislature, Regular Session, 1967 (Article
   1-36  6252-17, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), regardless of whether the
   1-37  board, commission, or committee has rulemaking or quasi-judicial
   1-38  powers or functions only in an advisory capacity.
   1-39        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-40  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-41  emergency   and   an   imperative   public   necessity   that   the
   1-42  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-43  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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   1-45                                                         Austin,
   1-46  Texas
   1-47                                                         May 10, 1993
   1-48  Hon. Bob Bullock
   1-49  President of the Senate
   1-50  Sir:
   1-51  We, your Committee on State Affairs to which was referred H.B.
   1-52  No. 78, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed
   1-53  to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
   1-54  pass and be printed.
   1-55                                                         Harris of
   1-56  Dallas, Chairman
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   1-58                               WITNESSES
   1-59  No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 78.