Bill Text: TX HB2900 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the authority of a commodity producers board or a committee to hold meetings by telephone conference.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-05-24 - Effective immediately [HB2900 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2900-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of a commodity producers board or a committee to hold meetings by telephone conference.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-05-24 - Effective immediately [HB2900 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2900-Comm_Sub.html
By: Fierro, Springer (Senate Sponsor - Hall) | H.B. No. 2900 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 15, 2019; | ||
April 16, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Business & Commerce; April 29, 2019, reported favorably by the | ||
following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 29, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to the authority of a commodity producers board or a | ||
committee to hold meetings by telephone conference. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 41, Agriculture Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 41.061 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 41.061. MEETINGS BY TELEPHONE CONFERENCE CALL. (a) | ||
Notwithstanding Chapter 551, Government Code, a board or a | ||
committee established by a board may hold an open or closed meeting | ||
by telephone conference call if the convening at one location of a | ||
quorum of the board or committee is inconvenient for any member of | ||
the board or committee. | ||
(b) The meeting is subject to the notice requirements | ||
applicable to other meetings. | ||
(c) The notice of the meeting must specify as the location | ||
of the meeting the location where meetings of the board or | ||
committee, as applicable, are usually held. | ||
(d) Each part of the meeting that is required to be open to | ||
the public shall be audible to the public at the location specified | ||
in the notice of the meeting as the location of the meeting and the | ||
audio shall be recorded. The audio recording shall be made | ||
available to the public. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
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