By Reyna of Bexar H.B. No. 445
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to records of a closed meeting held by a school board.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 551.103, Government Code, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 551.103. CERTIFIED AGENDA OR [TAPE] RECORDING REQUIRED.
1-7 (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a [A] governmental body
1-8 shall either keep a certified agenda or make a tape recording or
1-9 other electronic recording of the proceedings of each closed
1-10 meeting other than[, except for] a private consultation permitted
1-11 under Section 551.071.
1-12 (b) A school board or the governing body of a home-rule
1-13 school district, a campus or program charter, or an open enrollment
1-14 charter school shall make a tape recording or other electronic
1-15 recording of the proceedings of each closed meeting other than a
1-16 private consultation permitted under Section 551.071.
1-17 (c) The presiding officer shall certify that an agenda kept
1-18 under Subsection (a) is a true and correct record of the
1-19 proceedings.
1-20 (d) [(c)] The certified agenda must include:
1-21 (1) a statement of the subject matter of each
1-22 deliberation;
1-23 (2) a record of any further action taken; and
1-24 (3) an announcement by the presiding officer at the
2-1 beginning and the end of the meeting indicating the date and time.
2-2 (e) [(d)] A tape recording or other electronic recording
2-3 made under Subsection (a) or (b) must include announcements by the
2-4 presiding officer at the beginning and the end of the meeting
2-5 indicating the date and time.
2-6 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-7 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-8 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-9 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-10 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-11 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.