AI-assisted research summary: A governmental body must post meeting notices in a publicly accessible place for at least three business days before the meeting, with special internet-posting rules and budget-notice content requirements.
Sec. 551.043. TIME AND ACCESSIBILITY OF NOTICE; POSTING OF BUDGET; GENERAL RULE. (a) The notice of a meeting of a governmental body must be posted in a place readily accessible to the general public at all times for at least three business days before the scheduled date of the meeting, except as provided by Sections 551.044, 551.045, 551.046, and 551.1281. (b) If this chapter specifically requires or allows a governmental body to post notice of a meeting on the Internet: (1) the governmental body satisfies the requirement that the notice must be posted in a place readily accessible to the general public at all times by making a good-faith attempt to continuously post the notice on the Internet during the prescribed period; (2) the governmental body must still comply with any duty imposed by this chapter to physically post the notice at a particular location; and (3) if the governmental body makes a good-faith attempt to continuously post the notice on the Internet during the prescribed period, the notice physically posted at the location prescribed by this chapter must be readily accessible to the general public during normal business hours. (c) The notice of a meeting required to be posted under Subsection (a) at which a governmental body will discuss or adopt a budget for the governmental body must include: (1) a physical copy of the proposed budget unless the governmental body has made the proposed budget clearly accessible on the home page of the governmental body's Internet website; and (2) a taxpayer impact statement showing, for the median-valued homestead property, a comparison of the property tax bill in dollars pertaining to the property for the current fiscal year to an estimate of the property tax bill in dollars for the same property for the upcoming fiscal year if: (A) the proposed budget is adopted; and (B) for a taxing unit as defined by Section 1.04, Tax Code, other than an independent school district, a balanced budget funded at the no-new-revenue tax rate as calculated under Chapter 26, Tax Code, is adopted. (c-1) Subsection (c) does not apply to the governing board of a general academic teaching institution or of a university system to which Section 551.1281 applies. Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 268, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993. Amended by: Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 624 (H.B. 2381), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2005. Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1075 (H.B. 1522), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2025. Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1075 (H.B. 1522), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2025.