85R11299 SCL-D     By: Gutierrez H.B. No. 3896       A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT   relating to the posting of notice required to be published in a   newspaper on the Internet website of certain municipalities.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 2051, Government Code, is   amended by adding Section 2051.054 to read as follows:          Sec. 2051.054.  NOTICE BY PUBLICATION ON INTERNET FOR   CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES WITH NO NEWSPAPER. (a) This section   applies only to a municipality:                (1)  that has a population of 25,000 or less; and                (2)  in which no newspaper is published.          (b)  A municipality may satisfy a requirement in any other   law to provide notice by publication in a newspaper by posting the   notice on its Internet website beginning on the earliest date   provided for in the requirement and continuing until the day after   the date the action for which notice was required occurs.          SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives   a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as   provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this   Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this   Act takes effect September 1, 2017.