| TO: | Honorable Robert Duncan, Chair, Senate Committee on State Affairs |
| FROM: | John S. O'Brien, Deputy Director, Legislative Budget Board |
| IN RE: | SB690 by Zaffirini (Relating to the required posting by a governmental body of a meeting of the governmental body that is continued to the following regular business day.), As Introduced |
The bill would provide that a governmental body that recesses a meeting to the next regular business day is not required to post notice of the continued meeting if action is taken in good faith and not to circumvent the Act. The bill would also provide that, if there is a catastrophe that would prevent a governmental body from convening the continued meeting on the following regular business day, then the governmental body would not be required to post notice to convene the continued meeting on the next regular business day following the catastrophe. The bill would take effect immediately if it receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house. Otherwise, it would take effect on September 1, 2005.
The Office of the Attorney General estimates that the bill would generate approximately two additional requests for an attorney general opinion in the next biennium; however, it is projected that current resources could absorb this increase.
| Source Agencies: | 302 Office of the Attorney General
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| LBB Staff: | JOB, SR, MS
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