By Jones of Lubbock H.B. No. 2763
75R8847 JD-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the application of the open meetings law to judges
1-3 performing management functions in connection with a community
1-4 supervision and corrections department.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 551.001(3), Government Code, is amended
1-7 to read as follows:
1-8 (3) "Governmental body":
1-9 (A) means:
1-10 (i) [(A)] a board, commission, department,
1-11 committee, or agency within the executive or legislative branch of
1-12 state government that is directed by one or more elected or
1-13 appointed members;
1-14 (ii) [(B)] a county commissioners court in
1-15 the state;
1-16 (iii) [(C)] a municipal governing body in
1-17 the state;
1-18 (iv) [(D)] a deliberative body that has
1-19 rulemaking or quasi-judicial power and that is classified as a
1-20 department, agency, or political subdivision of a county or
1-21 municipality;
1-22 (v) [(E)] a school district board of
1-23 trustees;
1-24 (vi) [(F)] a county board of school
2-1 trustees;
2-2 (vii) [(G)] a county board of education;
2-3 (viii) [(H)] the governing board of a
2-4 special district created by law; and
2-5 (ix) [(I)] a nonprofit corporation
2-6 organized under Chapter 76, Acts of the 43rd Legislature, 1st
2-7 Called Session, 1933 (Article 1434a, Vernon's Texas Civil
2-8 Statutes), that provides a water supply or wastewater service, or
2-9 both, and is exempt from ad valorem taxation under Section 11.30,
2-10 Tax Code; and
2-11 (B) does not include, except as provided by
2-12 Section 140.004(g), Local Government Code, a district judge in the
2-13 performance of the judge's management functions under Chapter 76 in
2-14 connection with a community supervision and corrections department,
2-15 or a gathering of a group of district judges in the performance of
2-16 those judges' management functions under that chapter.
2-17 SECTION 2. Section 140.004, Local Government Code, is
2-18 amended by adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:
2-19 (g) Chapter 551, Government Code, applies to a meeting
2-20 required by Subsection (b).
2-21 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-25 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-26 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-27 passage, and it is so enacted.