By Hawley H.B. No. 1030
76R4911 JD-F
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.