By: Hunter (Senate Sponsor - Hegar) H.B. No. 2978
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 4, 2011;
May 5, 2011, read first time and referred to Select Committee on
Open Government; May 13, 2011, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 13, 2011, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the applicability of open meetings requirements to
certain meetings of the governing board of a county hospital or
county hospital authority.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 551.085(a), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(a) This chapter does not require the governing board of a
municipal hospital, municipal hospital authority, county hospital,
county hospital authority, hospital district created under general
or special law, or nonprofit health maintenance organization
created under Section 534.101, Health and Safety Code, to conduct
an open meeting to deliberate:
(1) pricing or financial planning information
relating to a bid or negotiation for the arrangement or provision of
services or product lines to another person if disclosure of the
information would give advantage to competitors of the hospital,
hospital district, or nonprofit health maintenance organization;
or
(2) information relating to a proposed new service or
product line of the hospital, hospital district, or nonprofit
health maintenance organization before publicly announcing the
service or product line.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
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