86R2349 MCK-D
 
  By: VanDeaver H.B. No. 331
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the application of the open meetings law to the medical
  advisory board.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter H, Chapter 12, Health and Safety
  Code, is amended by adding Section 12.099 to read as follows:
         Sec. 12.099.  OPEN MEETINGS. (a)  All meetings of the
  medical advisory board or a panel shall be conducted in accordance
  with the open meetings law, Chapter 551, Government Code.
         (b)  This section and Chapter 551, Government Code, do not
  require the medical advisory board or a panel to conduct an open
  meeting to deliberate a record, a report, or testimony described by
  Section 12.097(a).
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.