By Duncan                                       S.B. No. 1634

      75R8847 JD-D                           

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the application of the open meetings law to judges

 1-3     performing management functions in connection with a community

 1-4     supervision and corrections department.

 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-6           SECTION 1.  Section 551.001(3), Government Code, is amended

 1-7     to read as follows:

 1-8                 (3)  "Governmental body":

 1-9                       (A)  means:

1-10                             (i) [(A)]  a board, commission, department,

1-11     committee, or agency within the executive or legislative branch of

1-12     state government that is directed by one or more elected or

1-13     appointed members;

1-14                             (ii) [(B)]  a county commissioners court in

1-15     the state;

1-16                             (iii) [(C)]  a municipal governing body in

1-17     the state;

1-18                             (iv) [(D)]  a deliberative body that has

1-19     rulemaking or quasi-judicial power and that is classified as a

1-20     department, agency, or political subdivision of a county or

1-21     municipality;

1-22                             (v) [(E)]  a school district board of

1-23     trustees;

1-24                             (vi) [(F)]  a county board of school

 2-1     trustees;

 2-2                             (vii) [(G)]  a county board of education;

 2-3                             (viii) [(H)]  the governing board of a

 2-4     special district created by law; and

 2-5                             (ix) [(I)]  a nonprofit corporation

 2-6     organized under Chapter 76, Acts of the 43rd Legislature, 1st

 2-7     Called Session, 1933 (Article 1434a, Vernon's Texas Civil

 2-8     Statutes), that provides a water supply or wastewater service, or

 2-9     both, and is exempt from ad valorem taxation under Section 11.30,

2-10     Tax Code; and

2-11                       (B)  does not include, except as provided by

2-12     Section 140.004(g), Local Government Code, a district judge in the

2-13     performance of the judge's management functions under Chapter 76 in

2-14     connection with a community supervision and corrections department,

2-15     or a gathering of a group of district judges in the performance of

2-16     those judges' management functions under that chapter.

2-17           SECTION 2.  Section 140.004, Local Government Code, is

2-18     amended by adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:

2-19           (g)  Chapter 551, Government Code, applies to a meeting

2-20     required by Subsection (b).

2-21           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

2-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

2-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-24     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-25     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

2-26     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

2-27     passage, and it is so enacted.