Bills · 2017-2018 Regular Session
Relating to: public notice for meetings of senate committees.
Legislature — Committees Legislature — Rules — Senate Open meeting _governmental_
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Unfamiliar terms? Glossary
What this bill does
Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau
Under current senate rules, public notice of every meeting of a senate
committee must be given at least 24 hours before the commencement of the meeting,
unless the committee on senate organization determines that for good cause such
notice is impossible or impractical. In no case, however, may notice be provided less
than two hours in advance of a meeting.
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 or extraordinary sessions of the legislature.