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Floor Packet Page No. 221
Amend CSHB 2 as follows:
(1) On page 74, between lines 10 and 11, insert the following section, appropriately numbered:
SECTION 2C.___. Subchapter D, Chapter 11, Education Code,
is amended by adding Section 11.1511 to read as follows:
Sec. 11.1511. ELECTRONIC NOTICE FOR PUBLIC HEARINGS OR
MEETINGS PERMITTED. (a) Instead of publishing notice for a public
hearing or public meeting in the manner prescribed by statute, a
school district may publish any required notice on its Internet
website if authorized by rule adopted by the trustees of the
independent school district.
(b) A school district that publishes notice under this
section must have a link on its Internet website that is clearly
identified as the link to public notices for public hearings or
public meetings.
(2) On page 78, between lines 2 and 3, insert the following
sections, appropriately numbered:
SECTION 2C.___. Section 44.031(g), Education Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(g) Except as provided by Section 44.045, notice [Notice] of
the time by when and place where the bids or proposals, or the
responses to a request for qualifications, will be received and
opened shall be published in the county in which the district's
central administrative office is located, once a week for at least
two weeks before the deadline for receiving bids, proposals, or
responses to a request for qualifications. If there is not a
newspaper in that county, the advertising shall be published in a
newspaper in the county nearest the county seat of the county in
which the district's central administrative office is located. In
a two-step procurement process, the time and place where the
second-step bids, proposals, or responses will be received are not
required to be published separately.
SECTION 2C.___. Section 44.033(b), Education Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(b) Except as provided by Section 44.045, for [For] each
12-month period, the district shall publish a notice in two
successive issues of any newspaper of general circulation in the
county in which the school is located. If there is no newspaper in
the county in which the school is located, the advertising shall be
published in a newspaper in the county nearest the county seat of
the county in which the school is located, specifying the
categories of personal property to be purchased under this section
and soliciting the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of
vendors that are interested in supplying any of the categories to
the district. For each category, the district shall create a vendor
list consisting of each vendor that responds to the published
notice and any additional vendors the district elects to include.
SECTION 2C.___. Subchapter B, Chapter 44, Education Code,
is amended by adding Section 44.045 to read as follows:
Sec. 44.045. ELECTRONIC NOTICE. Instead of the detailed
notice required under Sections 44.031(g) and 44.033(b), a school
district may publish an abbreviated notice that states the
universal resource locator of the publicly accessible Internet
website where the detailed notice is published. The detailed notice
must be continuously available on the website for whichever of the
following periods is longer:
(1) the two weeks before the deadline for receiving
bids, proposals, or responses to a request for qualifications; or
(2) the period required for the printed publication of
the detailed notice.
SECTION 2C.___. Subchapter Z, Chapter 271, Local Government
Code, is amended by adding Section 271.908 to read as follows:
Sec. 271.908. ELECTRONIC NOTICE BY SCHOOL DISTRICT. Instead
of the detailed notice required by Sections 271.055 and 272.001, a
school district may publish an abbreviated notice that states the
universal resource locator of the publicly accessible Internet
website where the detailed notice is published. The detailed
notice must be continuously available on the website for whichever
of the following periods is longer:
(1) the 14 days before the school district takes the
action for which the notice is required; or
(2) the period required for the printed publication of
the detailed notice.
SECTION 2C.___. Section 272.001(a), Local Government Code,
is amended to read as follows:
(a) Except for the types of land and interests covered by
Subsection (b), (g), (h), (i), or (j), and except as provided by
Sections [Section] 253.008 and 271.908, before land owned by a
political subdivision of the state may be sold or exchanged for
other land, notice to the general public of the offer of the land
for sale or exchange must be published in a newspaper of general
circulation in either the county in which the land is located or, if
there is no such newspaper, in an adjoining county. The notice must
include a description of the land, including its location, and the
procedure by which sealed bids to purchase the land or offers to
exchange the land may be submitted. The notice must be published on
two separate dates and the sale or exchange may not be made until
after the 14th day after the date of the second publication.
(3) On page 151, line 15, strike "adding Subsection (b-1)
and amending Subsections (e) and (i)" and substitute "amending
Subsections (b), (e), and (i) and adding Subsections (b-1) and
(b-2)".
(4) On page 151, between lines 16 and 17, insert the
following:
(b) Except as provided by Subsection (b-2), the [The]
president shall provide for the publication of notice of the budget
and proposed tax rate meeting in a daily, weekly, or biweekly
newspaper published in the district. If no daily, weekly, or
biweekly newspaper is published in the district, the president
shall provide for the publication of notice in at least one
newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the
district's central administrative office is located. Notice under
this subsection shall be published not earlier than the 30th day or
later than the 10th day before the date of the hearing.
(5) On page 151, between lines 20 and 21, insert the
following:
(b-2) Instead of publishing notice in the manner prescribed
by Subsection (b), a school district may publish the required
notice on its Internet website not earlier than the 30th day or
later than the 10th day before the date of the hearing. A school
district that publishes notice under this subsection must have a
link on its Internet website that is clearly identified as the link
to the public notice for the budget and proposed tax rate meeting.
(6) On page 151, line 24, strike "and (b-1)" and substitute
", (b-1), and (b-2)".