Bill Text: CA AB1720 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Common interest developments: meetings.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From committee without further action. [AB1720 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB1720-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1720	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 4, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Wagner

                        JANUARY 27, 2016

   An act to amend Section 4925 of the Civil Code, relating to common
interest developments.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1720, as amended, Wagner. Common interest developments:
meetings.
   Existing law requires an association managing a common interest
development to provide notice of the time and place of a board
meeting and authorizes any member of the association to attend board
meetings, except when the board adjourns to, or meets solely in,
executive session. Existing law also requires the board to permit any
member to speak at any meeting, except for executive session
meetings.
   This bill would require the board to permit  an attorney
who   a person that  represents a member to attend
board meetings, and would require written notice to be given, as
specified.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 4925 of the Civil Code is amended to read:
   4925.  (a) A member may attend board meetings, except when the
board adjourns to, or meets solely in, executive session. As
specified in subdivision (b) of Section 4090, a member of the
association shall be entitled to attend a teleconference meeting or
the portion of a teleconference meeting that is open to members, and
that meeting or portion of the meeting shall be audible to the
members in a location specified in the notice of the meeting.
   (b) The board shall permit the member to speak at any meeting of
the association or the board, except for meetings of the board held
in executive session. A reasonable time limit for all members of the
association to speak to the board or before a meeting of the
association shall be established by the board.
   (c) The board shall permit  an attorney who  
a person who  represents a member to attend any board meeting
that the member is permitted to attend, regardless of whether the
member attends.  Where possible, the   The 
member shall give the board at least 48 hours advance written notice
that  his or her attorney   a person  
representing the member  will attend the board meeting.