BILL NUMBER: AB 1436	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER  233
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 24, 2010
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 23, 2010
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 23, 2010
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 24, 2010
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 23, 2010
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 11, 2010
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 4, 2010

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Portantino
   (Coauthor: Senator Romero)

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

   An act to add Section 66020.5 to the Education Code, relating to
postsecondary educational institutions.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1436, Portantino. Postsecondary educational institutions:
meetings: live audio transmission.
   Existing law, intended to strengthen existing accountability
requirements, requires the California Postsecondary Education
Commission, each November 15, to submit a higher education report to
the Legislature and the Governor that provides information to the
citizens of the state on the significant indicators of performance of
the public colleges and universities.
   This bill would require the Board of Governors of the California
Community Colleges, the Trustees of the California State University,
the California Postsecondary Education Commission, and the Student
Aid Commission, including any auxiliary organization, to provide for
live audio transmission of all meetings, which are open to the public
pursuant to specified law, through a technology that is accessible
to as large a segment of the public as possible. This bill would also
request the Regents of the University of California to comply with
these provisions.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 66020.5 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   66020.5.  (a) The Board of Governors of the California Community
Colleges, the Trustees of the California State University, the
California Postsecondary Education Commission, and the Student Aid
Commission, including any auxiliary organization established pursuant
to Section 69522, shall, and the Regents of the University of
California are requested to, provide for live audio transmission of
all meetings, which are open to the public pursuant to the
Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act (Article 9 (commencing with Section
11120) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the
Government Code), through a technology that is accessible to as large
a segment of the public as possible, including, but not necessarily
limited to, the use of either of the following technologies:
   (1) Cable, satellite, over-the-air, or any other type of
transmission that can be accessed though a television.
   (2) Web cast, in which case notice of meetings that are open to
the public and links to the Web cast shall be easily accessible via
each entity's Internet Web site.
   (b) It is not a violation of this section if technical failures
prevent an entity from providing a live audio transmission so long as
the entity exercised reasonable diligence in making a live audio
transmission available.