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| 1 | 1 | 85R11299 SCL-D | |
| 2 | 2 | By: Gutierrez H.B. No. 3896 | |
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| 4 | 4 | ||
| 5 | 5 | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED | |
| 6 | 6 | AN ACT | |
| 7 | 7 | relating to the posting of notice required to be published in a | |
| 8 | 8 | newspaper on the Internet website of certain municipalities. | |
| 9 | 9 | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | |
| 10 | 10 | SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 2051, Government Code, is | |
| 11 | 11 | amended by adding Section 2051.054 to read as follows: | |
| 12 | 12 | Sec. 2051.054. NOTICE BY PUBLICATION ON INTERNET FOR | |
| 13 | 13 | CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES WITH NO NEWSPAPER. (a) This section | |
| 14 | 14 | applies only to a municipality: | |
| 15 | 15 | (1) that has a population of 25,000 or less; and | |
| 16 | 16 | (2) in which no newspaper is published. | |
| 17 | 17 | (b) A municipality may satisfy a requirement in any other | |
| 18 | 18 | law to provide notice by publication in a newspaper by posting the | |
| 19 | 19 | notice on its Internet website beginning on the earliest date | |
| 20 | 20 | provided for in the requirement and continuing until the day after | |
| 21 | 21 | the date the action for which notice was required occurs. | |
| 22 | 22 | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | |
| 23 | 23 | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | |
| 24 | 24 | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | |
| 25 | 25 | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | |
| 26 | 26 | Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |