By: Ogden S.B. No. 1211
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the meetings of a commissioners court of a county.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Subsection (c), Section 81.005, Local Government
1-4 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-5 (c) Except as provided by Subsection (f) of this section,
1-6 the term shall be held at:
1-7 (1) the county seat at the courthouse;
1-8 (2) an auxiliary courthouse, courthouse annex, or
1-9 another building in the county acquired by the county under Chapter
1-10 292, 293, or 305 or another law, that houses county administration
1-11 offices or county or district courts, located inside the city
1-12 limits of the county seat; [or]
1-13 (3) the regular meeting place of another political
1-14 subdivision if:
1-15 (A) the commissioners court meets [serves a
1-16 county with a population of 350,000 or more and is meeting] with
1-17 the governing body of that political subdivision located wholly or
1-18 partly within the county; and
1-19 (B) [if] the regular meeting place of that
1-20 political subdivision is in the county;
1-21 (4) a meeting place in the county in a building owned
1-22 by another political subdivision located wholly or partly in the
1-23 county if:
2-1 (A) the commissioners court meets with the
2-2 governing body of that political subdivision;
2-3 (B) the places where the commissioners court and
2-4 the governing body of the political subdivision regularly hold
2-5 their meetings are not large enough to accommodate the number of
2-6 persons expected to attend the meeting; and
2-7 (C) the meeting place in the building owned by
2-8 the political subdivision is large enough to accommodate the
2-9 expected number of persons; or
2-10 (5) a meeting place in the county in a building owned
2-11 by the county if:
2-12 (A) the place where the commissioners court
2-13 regularly holds its meetings is not large enough to accommodate the
2-14 number of persons expected to attend the meeting; and
2-15 (B) the meeting place in the building owned by
2-16 the county is large enough to accommodate the expected number of
2-17 persons.
2-18 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
2-19 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.