By Glaze H.B. No. 371
77R2730 JRD-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the application of the open meetings law and the open
1-3 records law to certain entities eligible to receive funds under the
1-4 federal community services block grant program.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 551.001(3), Government Code, is amended
1-7 to read as follows:
1-8 (3) "Governmental body" means:
1-9 (A) a board, commission, department, committee,
1-10 or agency within the executive or legislative branch of state
1-11 government that is directed by one or more elected or appointed
1-12 members;
1-13 (B) a county commissioners court in the state;
1-14 (C) a municipal governing body in the state;
1-15 (D) a deliberative body that has rulemaking or
1-16 quasi-judicial power and that is classified as a department,
1-17 agency, or political subdivision of a county or municipality;
1-18 (E) a school district board of trustees;
1-19 (F) a county board of school trustees;
1-20 (G) a county board of education;
1-21 (H) the governing board of a special district
1-22 created by law; [and]
1-23 (I) a nonprofit corporation organized under
1-24 Chapter 67, Water Code, that provides a water supply or wastewater
2-1 service, or both, and is exempt from ad valorem taxation under
2-2 Section 11.30, Tax Code; and
2-3 (J) a nonprofit corporation that is eligible to
2-4 receive funds under the federal community services block grant
2-5 program and that is authorized by this state to serve a geographic
2-6 area of the state.
2-7 SECTION 2. Section 552.003(1), Government Code, is amended
2-8 to read as follows:
2-9 (1) "Governmental body":
2-10 (A) means:
2-11 (i) a board, commission, department,
2-12 committee, institution, agency, or office that is within or is
2-13 created by the executive or legislative branch of state government
2-14 and that is directed by one or more elected or appointed members;
2-15 (ii) a county commissioners court in the
2-16 state;
2-17 (iii) a municipal governing body in the
2-18 state;
2-19 (iv) a deliberative body that has
2-20 rulemaking or quasi-judicial power and that is classified as a
2-21 department, agency, or political subdivision of a county or
2-22 municipality;
2-23 (v) a school district board of trustees;
2-24 (vi) a county board of school trustees;
2-25 (vii) a county board of education;
2-26 (viii) the governing board of a special
2-27 district;
3-1 (ix) the governing body of a nonprofit
3-2 corporation organized under Chapter 67, Water Code, that provides a
3-3 water supply or wastewater service, or both, and is exempt from ad
3-4 valorem taxation under Section 11.30, Tax Code; [and]
3-5 (x) the part, section, or portion of an
3-6 organization, corporation, commission, committee, institution, or
3-7 agency that spends or that is supported in whole or in part by
3-8 public funds; and
3-9 (xi) a nonprofit corporation that is
3-10 eligible to receive funds under the federal community services
3-11 block grant program and that is authorized by this state to serve a
3-12 geographic area of the state; and
3-13 (B) does not include the judiciary.
3-14 SECTION 3. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
3-15 (b) The change in law to Section 551.001, Government Code,
3-16 made by this Act applies only to a deliberation of the governing
3-17 body of a nonprofit corporation that is eligible to receive funds
3-18 under the federal community services block grant program and that
3-19 is authorized by this state to serve a geographic area of the state
3-20 that begins on or after September 4, 2001. A deliberation of such
3-21 a governing body that begins before September 4, 2001, is covered
3-22 by the applicable law in effect when the deliberation begins, and
3-23 the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
3-24 (c) The change in law to Section 552.003, Government Code,
3-25 made by this Act applies to information held by a nonprofit
3-26 corporation that is eligible to receive funds under the federal
3-27 community services block grant program and that is authorized by
4-1 this state to serve a geographic area of the state regardless of
4-2 when the information was collected or assembled.