Texas 2019 - 86th Regular

Texas House Bill HB4385 Latest Draft

Bill / Introduced Version Filed 03/08/2019

                            86R15499 AAF-D
 By: Oliverson H.B. No. 4385


 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 AN ACT
 relating to information on certain municipal utility districts'
 Internet websites.
 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 54, Water Code, is amended
 by adding Section 54.104 to read as follows:
 Sec. 54.104.  INFORMATION ON CERTAIN DISTRICTS' INTERNET
 WEBSITES. (a)  This section applies only to a district that has 250
 or more registered voters.
 (b)  A district shall publish on the district's Internet
 website:
 (1)  the directors' names;
 (2)  contact information for the district;
 (3)  the minutes for any meeting held by the district;
 (4)  at least three days before the date of a meeting
 held by the district, the agenda of the meeting; and
 (5)  at least 30 days before the date of an election for
 the board, information about the election, including the purpose of
 the election.
 (c)  If appropriate, a district shall respond within a
 reasonable period of time to a person who contacts the district
 through the information listed on the district's Internet website
 under Subsection (b).
 SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.