AR 17

Under current rules, the chairperson of an assembly committee determines

when committee meetings are held. This resolution amends the rules to provide that

public notice of every committee meeting must be given at least 24 hours before the

commencement of the meeting, unless the chairperson and ranking minority

member of the committee determine that for good cause such notice is impossible or

impractical. In no case, however, under the amended rules, may notice be provided

less than two hours in advance of a meeting. The public notice must be in such form

as is reasonably likely to apprise members of the public and the news media of the

meeting and must indicate the day, hour, and place of the meeting and the number,

author, and relating clause of each proposal to be considered. The resolution requires

that every committee meeting must be publicly held in a place reasonably accessible

to members of the public and must be open to all citizens at all times. Finally, the

resolution applies this new committee notice provision to committee meetings held

during special, extended, or extraordinary sessions of the legislature.