86R3186 SRS-D
By: Leach H.B. No. 2527
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a requirement that certain water districts make audio
and video recordings of open meetings available on the Internet.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 551.128(a) and (b-1), Government Code,
are amended to read as follows:
(a) In this section:
(1) [,] "Internet" means the largest nonproprietary
cooperative public computer network, popularly known as the
Internet.
(2) "Water district" has the meaning assigned by
Section 551.131(a).
(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, a
water district whose territory includes land in three or more
counties, 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:
(A) regularly scheduled open meeting that is not
a work session or a special called meeting; and
(B) open meeting that is a work session or
special called meeting if:
(i) the governmental body is an elected
school district board of trustees for a school district that has a
student enrollment of 10,000 or more; and
(ii) at the work session or special called
meeting, the board of trustees votes on any matter or allows public
comment or testimony; 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. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.