Bill Text: CA AB817 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Open meetings: teleconferencing: subsidiary body.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2024-06-05 - In committee: Set, second hearing. Failed passage. Reconsideration granted. [AB817 Detail]

Download: California-2023-AB817-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 817

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Introduced by Assembly Member Pacheco
(Coauthor: Assembly Member Wilson)

February 13, 2023

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An act to amend Section 54950 of the Government Code, relating to local government.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 817, as introduced, Pacheco. Local government: open meetings.

Existing law, the Ralph M. Brown Act, requires each legislative body of a local agency to provide notice of the time and place for its regular meetings and an agenda containing a brief general description of each item of business to be transacted. The act also requires that all meetings of a legislative body be open and public, and that all persons be permitted to attend unless a closed session is authorized.

This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to a provision of the Ralph M. Brown Act.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 54950 of the Government Code is amended to read:

54950.

 (a) In enacting this chapter, the Legislature finds and declares that the public commissions, boards and councils boards, councils, and the other public agencies in this State state exist to aid in the conduct of the people’s business. It is the intent of the law that their actions be taken openly and that their deliberations be conducted openly.

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(b) The people of this State state do not yield their sovereignty to the agencies which that serve them. The people, in delegating authority, do not give their public servants the right to decide what is good for the people to know and what is not good for them to know. The people insist on remaining informed informed, so that they may retain control over the instruments they have created.