By: Wentworth, et al. S.B. No. 1020 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the application of the open meetings law to certain 1-2 meetings of governmental bodies. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 1, Chapter 271, Acts of 1-5 the 60th Legislature, Regular Session, 1967 (Article 6252-17, 1-6 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows: 1-7 (a) "Meeting" means: 1-8 (1) any deliberation between a quorum of members of a 1-9 governmental body, or between a quorum of members of a governmental 1-10 body and any other person, at which any public business or public 1-11 policy over which the governmental body has supervision or control 1-12 is discussed or considered, or at which any formal action is taken; 1-13 or 1-14 (2) a gathering at which a quorum of members of a 1-15 governmental body is present and at which the body receives 1-16 information from, gives information to, asks questions of, or 1-17 receives questions from any third person, including an employee of 1-18 the governmental body, about the public business or public policy 1-19 over which the body has supervision or control. 1-20 It shall not be construed that the intent of this definition 1-21 is to prohibit the gathering of members of the governmental body in 1-22 numbers of a quorum or more for social functions unrelated to the 1-23 public business which is conducted by the body or for attendance of 1-24 regional, state, or national conventions or workshops as long as no 2-1 formal action is taken and any discussion of public business is 2-2 incidental to the functions, conventions, or workshops. 2-3 SECTION 2. Subsection (r), Section 2, Chapter 271, Acts of 2-4 the 60th Legislature, Regular Session, 1967 (Article 6252-17, 2-5 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), as added by Section 2, Chapter 549, 2-6 Acts of the 70th Legislature, Regular Session, 1987, is repealed. 2-7 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-8 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-9 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-10 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-11 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-12 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-13 passage, and it is so enacted.