78R4683 JRD-D

By:  Goodman                                                      H.B. No. 1719



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to allowing a governmental body to conduct a 
self-evaluation of the governmental body's performance in a closed 
meeting.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 551.074, Government Code, is amended to 
read as follows: 
	Sec. 551.074.  PERSONNEL MATTERS; SELF-EVALUATION; CLOSED 
MEETING.  (a)  This chapter does not require a governmental body to 
conduct an open meeting:
		(1)  to deliberate the appointment, employment, 
evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline, or dismissal of one 
or more [a] public officers [officer] or of a public employee;  or
		(2)  to hear a complaint or charge against an officer or 
employee.          
	(b)  Subsection (a) does not apply if an [the] officer or 
employee who is the subject of the deliberation or hearing requests 
a public hearing.
	(c)  This chapter does not require a governmental body to 
conduct an open meeting to engage in a self-evaluation of the 
governmental body's performance as a whole.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.