By Greenberg, Hirschi H.B. No. 36 74R731 JD-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the application of the open meetings law to certain 1-3 meetings of governmental bodies. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 551.001(4), Government Code, is amended 1-6 to read as follows: 1-7 (4) "Meeting" means: 1-8 (A) a deliberation between a quorum of a 1-9 governmental body, or between a quorum of a governmental body and 1-10 another person, during which public business or public policy over 1-11 which the governmental body has supervision or control is discussed 1-12 or considered or during which the governmental body takes formal 1-13 action; or 1-14 (B) a gathering at which a quorum of members of 1-15 a 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 The term does not include the gathering of a quorum of 1-21 a governmental body at a social function unrelated to the public 1-22 business that is conducted by the body, or the attendance by a 1-23 quorum of a governmental body at a regional, state, or national 1-24 convention or workshop, if formal action is not taken and any 2-1 discussion of public business is incidental to the social function, 2-2 convention, or workshop. The term includes a session of a 2-3 governmental body. 2-4 SECTION 2. Section 551.075, Government Code, is repealed. 2-5 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-10 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-11 passage, and it is so enacted.