By Hinojosa H.B. No. 838
77R3840 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 the governing body of an economic development
1-4 corporation.
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 to
1-7 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) the governing board of an economic
2-4 development corporation that is established under any law of this
2-5 state, other than a corporation established under the Development
2-6 Corporation Act of 1979 (Article 5190.6, Vernon's Texas Civil
2-7 Statutes) and subject to this chapter under Section 11(b) of that
2-8 Act, and that receives public funds.
2-9 SECTION 2. Section 552.003(1), Government Code, is amended to
2-10 read as follows:
2-11 (1) "Governmental body":
2-12 (A) means:
2-13 (i) a board, commission, department,
2-14 committee, institution, agency, or office that is within or is
2-15 created by the executive or legislative branch of state government
2-16 and that is directed by one or more elected or appointed members;
2-17 (ii) a county commissioners court in the
2-18 state;
2-19 (iii) a municipal governing body in the
2-20 state;
2-21 (iv) a deliberative body that has
2-22 rulemaking or quasi-judicial power and that is classified as a
2-23 department, agency, or political subdivision of a county or
2-24 municipality;
2-25 (v) a school district board of trustees;
2-26 (vi) a county board of school trustees;
2-27 (vii) a county board of education;
3-1 (viii) the governing board of a special
3-2 district;
3-3 (ix) the governing body of a nonprofit
3-4 corporation organized under Chapter 67, Water Code, that provides a
3-5 water supply or wastewater service, or both, and is exempt from ad
3-6 valorem taxation under Section 11.30, Tax Code; [and]
3-7 (x) the governing board of an economic
3-8 development corporation that is established under any law of this
3-9 state, other than a corporation established under the Development
3-10 Corporation Act of 1979 (Article 5190.6, Vernon's Texas Civil
3-11 Statutes) and subject to this chapter under Section 14A of that
3-12 Act, and that receives public funds; and
3-13 (xi) the part, section, or portion of an
3-14 organization, corporation, commission, committee, institution, or
3-15 agency that spends or that is supported in whole or in part by
3-16 public funds; and
3-17 (B) does not include the judiciary.
3-18 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.