Bill Text: MI HB4282 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Legislature; committees; publicly accessible online repository of house and senate committee meetings; create. Amends 1986 PA 268 (MCL 4.1101 - 4.1901) by adding sec. 204h.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-20 - Printed Bill Filed 02/20/2013 [HB4282 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2013-HB4282-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 4282

 

February 19, 2013, Introduced by Rep. Kelly and referred to the Committee on Government Operations.

 

     A bill to amend 1986 PA 268, entitled

 

"Legislative council act,"

 

(MCL 4.1101 to 4.1901) by adding section 204h.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 204h. (1) Notwithstanding section 204, beginning January

 

1, 2014, the council shall make the video or audio recording of all

 

new senate and house of representatives committee hearings

 

available to the public on a permanent internet repository.

 

     (2) The information described in subsection (1) that is

 

maintained by the council shall be made available in the shortest

 

feasible time after the information is available. The information

 

described in subsection (1) that is not maintained by the council

 

shall be made available in the shortest feasible time after it is

 

made available to the council.

 

     (3) This section does not alter or relinquish any copyright or

 

other proprietary interest or entitlement of this state relating to

 

any of the information made available under this section.

 

     (4) The council shall not charge a fee for the information

 

provided in this section.