76R13240 E By Denny H.B. No. 3239 Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3239: By Hochberg C.S.H.B. No. 3239 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to parental access to school board meetings. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 26.007(b), Education Code, is amended to 1-5 read as follows: 1-6 (b) A board of trustees of a school district must hold each 1-7 public meeting of the board within the boundaries of the district 1-8 except as required by law or except to hold a joint meeting with 1-9 another district or with another governmental entity, as defined by 1-10 Section 2051.041, Government Code, if the boundaries of the 1-11 governmental entity are in whole or in part within the boundaries 1-12 of the district. All public meetings must comply with Chapter 551, 1-13 Government Code. 1-14 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1999-2000 1-15 school year. 1-16 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-21 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-22 passage, and it is so enacted.