1-1     By:  Jones of Dallas, Denny (Senate Sponsor - Carona) H.B. No. 3448

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 8, 1997;

 1-3     May 9, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on State

 1-4     Affairs; May 16, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:

 1-5     Yeas 13, Nays 0; May 16, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the authorization of a closed meeting by the

 1-9     commissioners court of a county to deliberate certain personnel

1-10     actions affecting a member of an advisory body.

1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-12           SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 551, Government Code, is

1-13     amended by adding Section 551.0745 to read as follows:

1-14           Sec. 551.0745.  PERSONNEL MATTERS AFFECTING COUNTY ADVISORY

1-15     BODY; CLOSED MEETING.  (a)  This chapter does not require the

1-16     commissioners court of a county to conduct an open meeting:

1-17                 (1)  to deliberate the appointment, employment,

1-18     evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline, or dismissal of a

1-19     member of an advisory body; or

1-20                 (2)  to hear a complaint or charge against a member of

1-21     an advisory body.

1-22           (b)  Subsection (a) does not apply if the individual who is

1-23     the subject of the deliberation or hearing requests a public

1-24     hearing.

1-25           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-26     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-27     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-28     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-29     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-30     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-31     passage, and it is so enacted.

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