Bill Text: TX HB4385 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 4385 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to information on certain municipal utility districts' Internet websites.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-25 - Referred to Land & Resource Management [HB4385 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB4385-Introduced.html

	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.