By Danburg                                            H.B. No. 2114
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the application of the open meetings law to a board or
 1-3     committee of a sports and community venue district.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 335.023, Local Government Code, is
 1-6     amended by adding Subsections (c) and (d) to read as follows:
 1-7           (c)  Notwithstanding Section 551.001, Government Code:
 1-8                 (1)  a board or a committee of a board is considered to
 1-9     be meeting for purposes of Chapter 551, Government Code, without
1-10     regard to whether there is a deliberation between a quorum of the
1-11     board or committee or between a quorum of the board or committee
1-12     and another person, if:
1-13                       (A)  public business or public policy over which
1-14     the board or committee has supervision or control or about which it
1-15     has the duty to advise is discussed at a gathering of a quorum of
1-16     the board or committee; and
1-17                       (B)  the gathering of the quorum is not at a
1-18     social function as described by Section 551.001(4), Government
1-19     Code; and
1-20                 (2)  a committee of a board is considered to be a
1-21     governmental body for purposes of Chapter 551, Government Code,
1-22     without regard to whether the committee:
1-23                       (A)  has rulemaking or quasi-judicial power; or
1-24                       (B)  functions only in an advisory capacity.
 2-1           (d)  Section 551.075, Government Code, does not apply to a
 2-2     meeting of a board or of a committee of a board.
 2-3           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-4     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-5     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-6     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-7     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-8     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-9     passage, and it is so enacted.