By Hochberg H.B. No. 387
75R710 KKA-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to holding certain school board meetings outside district
1-3 boundaries.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 26.007, Education Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 26.007. ACCESS TO BOARD MEETINGS. (a) A parent is
1-8 entitled to complete access to any meeting of the board of trustees
1-9 of the school district, other than a closed meeting held in
1-10 compliance with Subchapters D and E, Chapter 551, Government Code.
1-11 (b) Except as provided by Subsection (c) or (d), a [A] board
1-12 of trustees of a school district must hold each public meeting of
1-13 the board within the boundaries of the district [except as required
1-14 by law or except to hold a joint meeting with another district].
1-15 All public meetings must comply with Chapter 551, Government Code.
1-16 (c) A board of trustees of a school district may hold
1-17 outside the boundaries of the district:
1-18 (1) a meeting held jointly with another district; or
1-19 (2) a meeting required by law to be held outside the
1-20 district.
1-21 (d) A board of trustees may hold not more than one working
1-22 retreat outside school district boundaries each year. A board of
1-23 trustees may not take final action or make a final decision at a
1-24 working retreat held under this subsection. A working retreat may
2-1 consist of two or more consecutive days. In this subsection,
2-2 "working retreat" means an open meeting as defined by Section
2-3 551.001, Government Code, at which a board of trustees engages in
2-4 long-range planning, team-building, leadership development, or
2-5 training.
2-6 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-7 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-11 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-12 passage, and it is so enacted.