The Public Safety Commission voted to approve redlined amendments to its bylaws on Nov. 3, expanding nonvoting membership and moving record custody to the City Clerk's Office.

The amendments add a process by which boards and commissions that are members of the Joint Inclusion Committee may nominate one member for appointment by council as a nonvoting Public Safety Commission member. The list of commissions named in the redline includes the African American Advisory Commission, the Asian American Quality of Life Advisory Commission, the Hispanic Quality of Life Commission, the Commission on Immigrant Affairs, the Mayor's Committee for People with Disabilities, the Commission on Aging, the Commission for Women, the LGBTQ+ Quality of Life Commission, the Human Rights Commission and the Early Childhood Commission.

The body also revised agency naming conventions in the bylaws to reflect updated department names (for example, "Austin Fire," "Austin Police," "Austin-Travis County EMS") and changed the records custody provision so that the commission's records are held at the City Clerk's Office rather than with a city department.

The motion to approve the redlined bylaws was seconded and, according to the chair's announcement, passed unanimously among members present. The chair said the bylaws will be submitted to the City Clerk's Office and then reviewed by the Audit and Finance Committee; the commission will have a further opportunity to respond if the committee requests revisions.

What happens next: The clerk's office will receive and transmit the adopted redline to Audit and Finance for committee consideration. If the committee requests changes, the commission may revisit language per committee direction.

Source: Public Safety Commission meeting (Nov. 3, 2025).