By Uher H.B. No. 1450 76R6042 JD-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the application of the open meetings law and the public 1-3 information law to certain state associations of counties. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 81.026, Local Government Code, is amended 1-6 by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: 1-7 (c) An association described by Subsection (a) and the 1-8 governing body of the association are considered to be 1-9 governmental bodies for purposes of the open meetings law and the 1-10 public information law, Chapters 551 and 552, Government Code. The 1-11 association shall post notice and provide special notice of its 1-12 meetings at the place and in the manner required for a board in the 1-13 executive branch of state government. 1-14 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. The 1-15 change in law made by this Act applies only to a deliberation of 1-16 the governing body of a state association of counties that begins 1-17 on or after September 8, 1999. A deliberation of the governing 1-18 body of a state association of counties that begins before 1-19 September 8, 1999, is covered by the law in effect when the 1-20 deliberation begins, and the former law is continued in effect for 1-21 that purpose. 1-22 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.