Bill Text: HI SB2143 | 2022 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To Board Meetings.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-03-24 - Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on JHA with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Ohno excused (1). [SB2143 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2022-SB2143-Amended.html
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THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2022 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO BOARD MEETINGS.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 92-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new definition to be appropriately inserted and to read as follows:
""Board packet" means documents that are compiled by a board and distributed to board members before a meeting for use at that meeting. "Board packet" does not include records that are not fully public under chapter 92F and cannot be reasonably redacted in the time available, including but not limited to executive session minutes and license applications."
SECTION 2. Section 92-3, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§92-3 Open meetings. Every meeting of all boards shall be open to
the public and all persons shall be permitted to attend any meeting unless otherwise
provided in the constitution or as closed pursuant to sections 92-4 and 92-5;
provided that the removal of any person or persons who wilfully disrupts a
meeting to prevent and compromise the conduct of the meeting shall not be
prohibited. The boards shall afford all
interested persons [an]:
(1) An opportunity
to submit data, views, or arguments, in writing, on any agenda item[. The boards shall also afford all interested
persons an]; and
(2) An opportunity
to present oral testimony on any agenda item[.]; provided that the boards
shall not limit the presentation of oral testimony solely to the beginning of the
board meeting.
The boards may provide for reasonable administration of oral testimony by rule."
SECTION 3. Section 92-7.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"[[]§92-7.5[]] Board packet; filing; public inspection;
notice. At the time the board packet
is distributed to the board members, the board shall also make the board packet
available for public inspection in the board's office[.]; provided that
board packets shall be made available for public inspection at least forty-eight
hours prior to the board meeting; provided further that nothing in this section
shall require a board to prepare or use a board packet. The board shall provide notice to persons
requesting notification of meetings pursuant to section 92-7(e) that the
board packet is available for inspection in the board's office and shall
provide reasonably prompt access to the board packet to any person upon
request. The board is not required to
mail board packets. As soon as practicable,
the board shall accommodate requests for electronic access to the board packet.
[For
purposes of this section, "board packet" means documents that are
compiled by the board and distributed to board members before a meeting for use
at that meeting, to the extent the documents are public under chapter 92F;
provided that this section shall not require disclosure of executive session
minutes, license applications, or other records for which the board cannot
reasonably complete its redaction of nonpublic information in the time
available before the public inspection required by this section.]"
SECTION 4. This Act does not affect rights and duties that matured, penalties that were incurred, and proceedings that were begun before its effective date.
SECTION 5. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 6. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2112.
Report Title:
Open Meetings; Community Meetings; Board Packets
Description:
Defines "board packet" and requires each state board to make its board packets publicly available at least forty-eight hours prior to the board meeting, but only if the board uses board packets. Effective 7/1/2112. (HD1)
The summary description
of legislation appearing on this page is for informational purposes only and is
not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.
