85R18720 CLG-D
By: Sanford, et al. H.B. No. 1251
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1251:
By: Tinderholt C.S.H.B. No. 1251
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to Internet broadcasts of open meetings held by the board
of directors of certain development corporations.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 551.128(b-1), Government Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(b-1) A transit authority or department subject to Chapter
451, 452, 453, or 460, Transportation Code, an elected school
district board of trustees for a school district that has a student
enrollment of 10,000 or more, an elected governing body of a
home-rule municipality that has a population of 50,000 or more, the
board of directors of a corporation organized under Subtitle C1,
Title 12, Local Government Code, that was authorized to be created
by a home-rule municipality with a population of 50,000 or more, or
a county commissioners court for a county that has a population of
125,000 or more shall:
(1) make a video and audio recording of reasonable
quality of each regularly scheduled open meeting that is not a work
session or a special called meeting; and
(2) make available an archived copy of the video and
audio recording of each meeting described by Subdivision (1) on the
Internet.
SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
an open meeting held on or after the effective date of this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.