By: Schwertner S.B. No. 335
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to meetings of the Family and Protective Services Council
  broadcast over the Internet.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 40.026, Human Resources Code, is amended
  by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
         (d)  For each open meeting of the council, the department
  shall:
               (1)  broadcast over the Internet live video and audio
  of the meeting and provide access to the broadcast on the
  department's Internet website; or
               (2)  not later than the end of the second business day
  after the day a meeting is held, make available through the
  department's Internet website archived video and audio of the
  meeting until the second anniversary of the date the archived video
  and audio was first made available on the website.
         SECTION 2.  The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
  a Family and Protective Services Council 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 of the
  meeting, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.