Bill Text: TX HB3440 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the governmental bodies required to post on the Internet agendas for meetings under the open meetings law.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-13 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB3440 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3440-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 3440 | ||
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| relating to the governmental bodies required to post on the | ||
| Internet agendas for meetings under the open meetings law. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 551.056(b), Government Code, is amended | ||
| to read as follows: | ||
| (b) In addition to the other place at which notice or an | ||
| agenda of a meeting is required to be posted by this subchapter, the | ||
| following governmental bodies and economic development | ||
| corporations must also concurrently post notice of a meeting and | ||
| the agenda for the meeting on the Internet website of the | ||
| governmental body or economic development corporation: | ||
| (1) a municipality; | ||
| (2) a county; | ||
| (3) a school district; | ||
| (4) the governing body of a junior college or junior | ||
| college district, including a college or district that has changed | ||
| its name in accordance with Chapter 130, Education Code; | ||
| (5) a development corporation organized under the | ||
| Development Corporation Act (Subtitle C1, Title 12, Local | ||
| Government Code); | ||
| (6) a regional mobility authority included within the | ||
| meaning of an "authority" as defined by Section 370.003, | ||
| Transportation Code; [ |
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| (7) a joint board created under Section 22.074, | ||
| Transportation Code; and | ||
| (8) a district or authority created under Section 52, | ||
| Article III, or Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 551.056(c), Government Code, is | ||
| repealed. | ||
| SECTION 3. Section 551.056(b), Government Code, as amended | ||
| by this Act, applies only to an open meeting held on or after the | ||
| effective date of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 3440 was passed by the House on May 9, | ||
| 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 139, Nays 3, 2 present, not | ||
| voting; that the House refused to concur in Senate amendments to | ||
| H.B. No. 3440 on May 25, 2023, and requested the appointment of a | ||
| conference committee to consider the differences between the two | ||
| houses; and that the House adopted the conference committee report | ||
| on H.B. No. 3440 on May 28, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 140, | ||
| Nays 0, 2 present, not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 3440 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
| amendments, on May 22, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
| 0; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference | ||
| committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and | ||
| that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No. | ||
| 3440 on May 28, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
