By: Gallego H.B. No. 377 73R844 JRD-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the notice required under the open meetings law when a 1-3 state governmental body holds a meeting on a subject that directly 1-4 affects a local governmental body. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 3A, Chapter 271, Acts of 1-7 the 60th Legislature, Regular Session, 1967 (Article 6252-17, 1-8 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows: 1-9 (b)(1) A State governmental body shall furnish notice to the 1-10 Secretary of State, who shall then post the notice on a bulletin 1-11 board to be located in the main office of the Secretary of State at 1-12 a place convenient to the public. 1-13 (2) A State governmental body that holds a meeting on 1-14 a subject that directly affects a local governmental body that is 1-15 described by Subsections (c)-(g) of this section also shall send 1-16 notice to the affected local governmental body by depositing the 1-17 notice, with a proper address and postage paid, in the United 1-18 States mail before the 10th day before the date that the meeting is 1-19 held. The local governmental body receiving the notice shall 1-20 promptly post the notice at the same place that the local 1-21 governmental body posts notice of its meetings. The failure of the 1-22 local governmental body to post the notice does not make the action 1-23 of the State governmental body voidable. 1-24 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. The 2-1 change in law made by this Act applies only to notice of a meeting 2-2 held 10 or more days after the effective date of this Act. 2-3 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.