By: Wentworth, et al. S.B. No. 246 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. Subdivision (4), Section 551.001, Government 1-5 Code, is amended to read as follows: 1-6 (4) "Meeting" means: 1-7 (A) a deliberation between a quorum of a 1-8 governmental body, or between a quorum of a governmental body and 1-9 another person, during which public business or public policy over 1-10 which the governmental body has supervision or control is discussed 1-11 or considered or during which the governmental body takes formal 1-12 action; or 1-13 (B) if the governmental body has four or more 1-14 members, a gathering at which a quorum of members of the 1-15 governmental body is present and at which the members solicit 1-16 information from, give information to, ask questions of, or solicit 1-17 questions from any third person, including an employee of the 1-18 governmental body, about the public business or public policy over 1-19 which the governmental 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 Section 551.075, Government Code, is repealed. 2-5 SECTION 3.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.