By Hawley                                             H.B. No. 1030
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the deliberations of certain school district advisory
 1-3     bodies.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 551.001(4), Government Code, is amended
 1-6     to read as follows:
 1-7                 (4)  "Meeting" means a deliberation between a quorum of
 1-8     a governmental body, or between a quorum of a governmental body and
 1-9     another person, during which public business or public policy over
1-10     which the governmental body has supervision or control is discussed
1-11     or considered or during which the governmental body takes formal
1-12     action.  The term includes a session of a governmental body.  The
1-13     term does not include:
1-14                       (A)  the gathering of a quorum of a governmental
1-15     body at a social function unrelated to the public business that is
1-16     conducted by the body, or the attendance by a quorum of a
1-17     governmental body at a regional, state, or national convention or
1-18     workshop, if formal action is not taken and any discussion of
1-19     public business is incidental to the social function, convention,
1-20     or workshop; or
1-21                       (B)  a deliberation between a quorum of a
1-22     committee, subcommittee, or other similar entity that is created
1-23     within a school district and consists of less than a quorum of the
1-24     trustees of the district, if the entity is created for advisory
 2-1     purposes only and in actual practice does not supervise, control,
 2-2     or exercise any authority of the board of trustees or take any
 2-3     formal action. [The term includes a session of a governmental
 2-4     body.]
 2-5           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-6     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-7     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-8     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-9     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-10     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-11     passage, and it is so enacted.