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      By Maxey                                         H.B. No. 746

                                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)  if the governmental body has four or more

1-15     members, a gathering at which a quorum of members of the

1-16     governmental body is present and at which the members receive

1-17     information from, give information to, ask questions of, or receive

1-18     questions from any third person, including an employee of the

1-19     governmental body, about the public business or public policy over

1-20     which the governmental body has supervision or control.

1-21                 The term does not include the gathering of a quorum of

1-22     a governmental body at a social function unrelated to the public

1-23     business that is conducted by the body, or the attendance by a

1-24     quorum of a governmental body at a regional, state, or national

 2-1     convention or workshop, if formal action is not taken and any

 2-2     discussion of public business is incidental to the social function,

 2-3     convention, or workshop.  The term includes a session of a

 2-4     governmental body.

 2-5           SECTION 2.  Section 551.075, Government Code, is repealed.

 2-6           SECTION 3.  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.