75R10301 MRB-D By Jones of Dallas, Denny H.B. No. 3448 Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3448: By Denny C.S.H.B. No. 3448 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the authorization of a closed meeting by the 1-3 commissioners court of a county to deliberate certain personnel 1-4 actions affecting a member of an advisory body. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 551, Government Code, is 1-7 amended by adding Section 551.0745 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 551.0745. PERSONNEL MATTERS AFFECTING COUNTY ADVISORY 1-9 BODY; CLOSED MEETING. (a) This chapter does not require the 1-10 commissioners court of a county to conduct an open meeting: 1-11 (1) to deliberate the appointment, employment, 1-12 evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline, or dismissal of a 1-13 member of an advisory body; or 1-14 (2) to hear a complaint or charge against a member of 1-15 an advisory body. 1-16 (b) Subsection (a) does not apply if the individual who is 1-17 the subject of the deliberation or hearing requests a public 1-18 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.