|
|
|
|
By: White (Senate Sponsor - Nichols) |
H.B. No. 1500 |
|
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 6, 2011; |
|
May 9, 2011, read first time and referred to Select Committee on |
|
Open Government; May 20, 2011, reported favorably by the following |
|
vote: Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 20, 2011, sent to printer.) |
|
|
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
|
|
AN ACT
|
|
|
relating to allowing the commissioners court of a county to |
|
deliberate in a closed meeting regarding business and financial |
|
issues related to a contract being negotiated. |
|
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
|
SECTION 1. Section 551.0725(a), Government Code, is amended |
|
to read as follows: |
|
(a) The commissioners court of a county [with a population
|
|
of 400,000 or more] may conduct a closed meeting to deliberate |
|
business and financial issues relating to a contract being |
|
negotiated if, before conducting the closed meeting: |
|
(1) the commissioners court votes unanimously that |
|
deliberation in an open meeting would have a detrimental effect on |
|
the position of the commissioners court in negotiations with a |
|
third person; and |
|
(2) the attorney advising the commissioners court |
|
issues a written determination that deliberation in an open meeting |
|
would have a detrimental effect on the position of the |
|
commissioners court in negotiations with a third person. |
|
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only |
|
to a meeting held on or after the effective date of this Act. A |
|
meeting held before the effective date of this Act is governed by |
|
the law in effect on the date the meeting is held, and the former law |
|
is continued in effect for that purpose. |
|
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
|
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
|
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
|
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
|
Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |
|
|
|
* * * * * |