By Maxey H.B. No. 595 76R7680 JRD-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to allowing a governmental body to discuss its test 1-3 questions in a closed meeting. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 551, Government Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 551.086 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 551.086. DELIBERATION REGARDING TEST ITEM. This 1-8 chapter does not require a governmental body to conduct an open 1-9 meeting to deliberate a test item or information related to a test 1-10 item if the governmental body believes that the test item may be 1-11 included in a test the governmental body administers to individuals 1-12 who seek to obtain or renew a license or certificate that is 1-13 necessary to engage in an activity. 1-14 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-19 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-20 passage, and it is so enacted.