85R929 GCB-D
By: Huffines S.B. No. 119
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the Internet broadcast of open meetings of the Texas
Lottery Commission.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 467, Government Code, is
amended by adding Section 467.0301 to read as follows:
Sec. 467.0301. INTERNET BROADCAST AND ARCHIVE OF OPEN
MEETINGS. (a) The commission shall:
(1) broadcast over the Internet live video and audio
of each open meeting of the commission;
(2) make a video and audio recording of reasonable
quality of the broadcast; and
(3) provide access to the archived video and audio on
the commission's Internet website.
(b) Not later than the seventh day after the date an open
meeting is broadcast under this section, the commission shall make
available through the commission's Internet website archived video
and audio of the open meeting. The commission shall maintain the
archived video and audio of the open meeting on the commission's
Internet website for not less than two years after the date the
archived video and audio was first made available on the website.
(c) The commission shall provide on the commission's
Internet website the same notice of the open meeting that the
commission is required to post under Subchapter C, Chapter 551. The
notice must be posted on the commission's Internet website within
the time required for posting notice under Subchapter C, Chapter
551.
(d) The commission may use for an Internet broadcast of an
open meeting of the commission a room made available to the
commission on request in any state building, as that term is defined
by Section 2165.301.
(e) The commission is exempt from the requirements of this
section to the extent a catastrophe, as defined by Section
551.0411, or a technical breakdown prevents the commission from
complying with this section. Following the catastrophe or
technical breakdown, the commission shall make all reasonable
efforts to make the required video and audio of the open meeting
available in a timely manner.
(f) The commission shall consider contracting through
competitive bidding with a private individual or entity to
broadcast and archive an open meeting subject to this section to
minimize the cost of complying with this section.
SECTION 2. Section 467.0301, Government Code, as added by
this Act, applies only to an open meeting held on or after September
1, 2019.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.