By Denny                                              H.B. No. 3239
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                                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 governmental entity as defined by Section
1-10     2051.041, Government Code, if the boundaries of the governmental
1-11     entity are within the boundaries of the district.
1-12           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-13           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-14     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-15     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-16     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-17     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.