85R931 DDT-D
 
  By: Schofield, Fallon, Uresti, et al. H.B. No. 523
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the requirement that certain elected school district
  boards make audio and video recordings of certain work sessions and
  special called meetings available on the Internet.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 551.128(b-1), Government Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (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, 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.  The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
  an open meeting held on or after the effective date of this Act. An
  open meeting that is held before the effective date of this Act is
  governed by the law in effect on the date of the open meeting, and
  the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.