By Smith                                              H.B. No. 3463
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to allowing a public school district to release tape
 1-3     recordings of a closed meeting to the Commissioner of Education for
 1-4     the purposes of appellate review.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1. Section 7.057(f)(1), Education Code, is amended to
 1-7     read as follows:
 1-8           Sec. 7.057(f)(1)  Record includes at a minimum, an audible
 1-9     electronic recording or written transcript of all oral testimony or
1-10     argument.  A public school district may disclose this record to the
1-11     commissioner for the purposes of this section and such disclosure
1-12     is not a violation of Section 551.146, Government Code.
1-13           SECTION 2. Section 21.301(b), Education Code, is amended to
1-14     read as follows:
1-15           Sec. 21.301(b)  The school district must file a response not
1-16     later than the 20th day after the date the petition for review is
1-17     filed.  The record of the local hearing must be filed with the
1-18     district's response or be filed alone within the period for a
1-19     response if the district does not file a response.  A public school
1-20     district may file this record with the commissioner for the
1-21     purposes of this section and such filing does not constitute a
1-22     disclosure in violation of Section 551.146, Government Code.
1-23           SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the crowded
 2-1     condition of the calendars in both houses create an emergency and
 2-2     an imperative public necessity that the constitutional rule
 2-3     requiring bills to be read on three several days in each house be
 2-4     suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, and that this Act
 2-5     take effect and be in force from and after its passage, and is so
 2-6     enacted.