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      By Jones of Dallas                              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)  If a person request the commissioners

1-10     court of a county to conduct a closed meeting on the following, the

1-11     commissioner court may conduct a closed meeting:

1-12           (1)  to deliberate the appointment, employment, evaluation,

1-13     reassignment, duties, discipline, or dismissal of a member of an

1-14     advisory body.

1-15           (2)  to hear a complaint or charge against a member of an

1-16     advisory body.

1-17           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-18     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-19     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-20     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-21     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-22     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-23     passage, and it is so enacted.