1-1 By: Ogden S.B. No. 1211
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 1997; March 17, 1997, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
1-4 Relations; April 3, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable
1-5 Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0;
1-6 April 3, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1211 By: Ogden
1-8 AN ACT
1-9 relating to the meetings of a commissioners court of a county.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Subsection (c), Section 81.005, Local Government
1-12 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-13 (c) Except as provided by Subsection (f) of this section,
1-14 the term shall be held at:
1-15 (1) the county seat at the courthouse;
1-16 (2) an auxiliary courthouse, courthouse annex, or
1-17 another building in the county acquired by the county under Chapter
1-18 292, 293, or 305 or another law, that houses county administration
1-19 offices or county or district courts, located inside the city
1-20 limits of the county seat; [or]
1-21 (3) the regular meeting place of another political
1-22 subdivision if:
1-23 (A) the commissioners court meets [serves a
1-24 county with a population of 350,000 or more and is meeting] with
1-25 the governing body of that political subdivision located wholly or
1-26 partly within the county; and
1-27 (B) [if] the regular meeting place of that
1-28 political subdivision is in the county;
1-29 (4) a meeting place in the county in a building owned
1-30 by another political subdivision located wholly or partly in the
1-31 county if:
1-32 (A) the commissioners court meets with the
1-33 governing body of that political subdivision;
1-34 (B) the places where the commissioners court and
1-35 the governing body of the political subdivision regularly hold
1-36 their meetings are not large enough to accommodate the number of
1-37 persons expected to attend the meeting; and
1-38 (C) the meeting place in the building owned by
1-39 the political subdivision is large enough to accommodate the
1-40 expected number of persons; or
1-41 (5) a meeting place in the county in a building owned
1-42 by the county if:
1-43 (A) the place where the commissioners court
1-44 regularly holds its meetings is not large enough to accommodate the
1-45 number of persons expected to attend the meeting; and
1-46 (B) the meeting place in the building owned by
1-47 the county is large enough to accommodate the expected number of
1-48 persons.
1-49 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-50 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-51 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-52 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-53 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-54 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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