1-1 By: Gallego (Senate Sponsor - Lucio) H.B. No. 377
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 17, 1993;
1-3 May 18, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on State
1-4 Affairs; May 24, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 10, Nays 0; May 24, 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 notice required under the open meetings law when a
1-24 state governmental body holds a meeting on a subject that directly
1-25 affects a local governmental body.
1-26 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-27 SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 3A, Chapter 271, Acts of
1-28 the 60th Legislature, Regular Session, 1967 (Article 6252-17,
1-29 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-30 (b)(1) A State governmental body shall furnish notice to the
1-31 Secretary of State, who shall then post the notice on a bulletin
1-32 board to be located in the main office of the Secretary of State at
1-33 a place convenient to the public.
1-34 (2) A State governmental body that holds a meeting on
1-35 a subject that directly affects a local governmental body that is
1-36 described by Subsections (c)-(g) of this section also shall send
1-37 notice to the affected local governmental body by depositing the
1-38 notice, with a proper address and postage paid, in the United
1-39 States mail before the 10th day before the date that the meeting is
1-40 held. The local governmental body receiving the notice shall
1-41 promptly post the notice at the same place that the local
1-42 governmental body posts notice of its meetings. The failure of the
1-43 local governmental body to post the notice does not make the action
1-44 of the State governmental body voidable.
1-45 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. The
1-46 change in law made by this Act applies only to notice of a meeting
1-47 held 10 or more days after the effective date of this Act.
1-48 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-49 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-50 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-51 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-52 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
1-53 * * * * *
1-54 Austin,
1-55 Texas
1-56 May 24, 1993
1-57 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-58 President of the Senate
1-59 Sir:
1-60 We, your Committee on State Affairs to which was referred H.B.
1-61 No. 377, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed
1-62 to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
1-63 pass and be printed.
1-64 Harris of
1-65 Dallas, Chairman
1-66 * * * * *
1-67 WITNESSES
1-68 No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 377.