Bill Text: CA AB2720 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: State agencies: meetings: record of action taken.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-09-20 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 510, Statutes of 2014. [AB2720 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB2720-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2720	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Ting

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to amend Section 11122 of the Government Code, relating to
public meetings.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2720, as introduced, Ting. State agencies: meetings: record of
action taken.
   The Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act requires, with specified
exceptions, that all meetings of a state body, as defined, be open
and public and all persons be permitted to attend any meeting of a
state body. The act defines various terms for its purposes, including
"action taken," which means a collective decision made by the
members of a state body, a collective commitment or promise by the
members of the state body to make a positive or negative decision, or
an actual vote by the members of a state body when sitting as a body
or entity upon a motion, proposal, resolution, order, or similar
action.
   This bill would, if the action taken by the members of a state
body is a recorded vote, require that the vote be counted and
identified in the minutes of the state body.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 11122 of the Government Code is amended to
read:
   11122.  As used in this article "action taken" means a collective
decision made by the members of a state body, a collective commitment
or promise by the members of the state body to make a positive or
negative decision  ,  or an actual vote by the members of a
state body when sitting as a body or entity upon a motion, proposal,
resolution, order or similar action.  If the action taken by the
members of a state body is a recorded vote, the vote shall be counted
and identified in the minutes of the state body.