HB1522

Starting September 1, 2025, HB1522 changes Texas’s general open-meetings notice requirement from 72 hours before a meeting’s scheduled time to at least three business days before its scheduled date. Notice must remain readily accessible to the public, subject to existing posting rules. This is not simply a new 72-hour clock. The bill does not itself define “business day,” so officials should check applicable guidance when calculating particular holiday or closure dates. Final law

For a covered meeting that will discuss or adopt a budget, the notice must include:

• A physical copy of the proposed budget, unless that proposed budget is clearly accessible on the government’s website home page.
• A taxpayer impact statement comparing the current fiscal year’s property-tax bill, in dollars, for a median-valued homestead with an estimate for the same property in the upcoming fiscal year if the proposed budget is adopted.
• For a property-taxing unit other than an independent school district, an additional comparison using a balanced budget funded at the statutory no-new-revenue tax rate. This is a disclosure scenario, not a requirement to adopt that budget or rate, and not a promise that every household’s bill will stay unchanged.

The independent-school-district exception applies to that additional no-new-revenue scenario, not to the entire budget-notice requirement. Governing boards of general academic teaching institutions and university systems covered by Section 551.1281 are exempt from the new budget attachments; their separate online meeting-materials and broadcast rules remain relevant. The existing exceptions for statewide bodies, emergency meetings and legislative committees also remain. Open-meetings law, Sections 551.043–.046 and 551.1281 · Taxing-unit definition, Section 1.04(12)