By Brimer H.B. No. 2688 74R3638 KKA-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to an exception from the open meeting law for certain 1-3 meetings of school district boards of trustees. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 551, Government Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 551.0831 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 551.0831. SCHOOL BOARDS; TRAINING AND ORIENTATION; 1-8 DEVELOPMENT OF LONG-RANGE STRATEGIC PLANS. This chapter does not 1-9 require a school board to conduct an open meeting for the purpose 1-10 of: 1-11 (1) allowing members of the board to participate in 1-12 training and orientation activities in accordance with Section 1-13 23.33, Education Code; or 1-14 (2) developing long-range strategic plans for the 1-15 district, except that a meeting at which formal action is taken by 1-16 the board to adopt a long-range strategic plan must be open. 1-17 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.