By Denny H.B. No. 1108
75R4351 MRB-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the authorization of a closed meeting to deliberate the
1-3 appointment of, or certain other personnel actions affecting, a
1-4 member of an advisory body.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 551.074, Government Code, is amended to
1-7 read as follows:
1-8 Sec. 551.074. PERSONNEL MATTERS; CLOSED MEETING. (a) This
1-9 chapter does not require a governmental body to conduct an open
1-10 meeting:
1-11 (1) to deliberate the appointment, employment,
1-12 evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline, or dismissal of a
1-13 public officer or employee or a member of an advisory body; or
1-14 (2) to hear a complaint or charge against an officer
1-15 or employee.
1-16 (b) Subsection (a) does not apply if the individual [officer
1-17 or employee] who is the subject of the deliberation or hearing
1-18 requests a public hearing.
1-19 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-24 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-1 passage, and it is so enacted.