Bill Text: HI SB2830 | 2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To Meetings.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-16 - Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to JDC. [SB2830 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2024-SB2830-Amended.html
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THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2024 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO MEETINGS.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 92-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended as follows:
1. By amending the definitions of "board" and "board business" to read:
""Board"
means any agency, board, commission, authority, [or] committee, or
policymaking group of the State or its political subdivisions [which]
that is created by [constitution,] any state or federal constitutional
provision, statute, rule, [or] executive order, or emergency
proclamation, to have supervision, control, jurisdiction, [or]
advisory power, or policymaking responsibilities over specific matters
and [which] that is required or requested to conduct
meetings and to take official actions[.], including the creation of
policies or policy recommendations.
"Board business" means specific
matters over which a board has supervision, control, jurisdiction, [or]
advisory power, or policymaking responsibilities that are actually
pending before the board, or that can be reasonably anticipated to arise before
the board in the foreseeable future."
2. By amending the definition of "meeting" to read:
""Meeting"
means the convening of a board for which a quorum is required in order to make
a decision or to deliberate toward a decision upon a matter over which the
board has supervision, control, jurisdiction, [or] advisory power[.],
or policymaking responsibilities."
SECTION 2. This Act does not affect rights and duties that matured, penalties that were incurred, and proceedings that were begun before its effective date.
SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2024.
Report Title:
Sunshine Law; Open Meetings; Policymaking Groups; Definitions
Description:
Amends the definitions of "board", "board business", and "meeting" within state open meetings law to expand the scope of the law to include state and county policymaking groups, including groups created by emergency proclamations. (SD1)
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