Bill Text: CA AB2058 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Open meetings.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 6-1)

Status: (Vetoed) 2014-09-27 - Vetoed by Governor. [AB2058 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB2058-Enrolled.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2058	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 13, 2014
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 20, 2014
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 19, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 9, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Wilk
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Hagman, Harkey, and Olsen)
   (Coauthors: Senators DeSaulnier, Gaines, and Vidak)

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2014

   An act to amend Section 11121 of the Government Code, relating to
state government, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect
immediately.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2058, Wilk. Open meetings.
   The Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act requires that all meetings of a
state body, as defined, be open and public and that all persons be
permitted to attend and participate in any meeting of a state body,
subject to certain conditions and exceptions.
   This bill would modify the definition of "state body" to exclude
an advisory body with less than 3 individuals, except for certain
standing committees.
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 11121 of the Government Code is amended to
read:
   11121.  As used in this article, "state body" means each of the
following:
   (a) Every state board, or commission, or similar multimember body
of the state that is created by statute or required by law to conduct
official meetings and every commission created by executive order.
   (b) A board, commission, committee, or similar multimember body
that exercises any authority of a state body delegated to it by that
state body.
   (c) An advisory board, advisory commission, advisory committee,
advisory subcommittee, or similar multimember advisory body of a
state body, if created by formal action of the state body or of any
member of the state body. An advisory body created to consist of
fewer than three individuals is not a state body, except that a
standing committee of a state body, irrespective of its composition,
which has a continuing subject matter jurisdiction, or a meeting
schedule fixed by resolution, policies, bylaws, or formal action of a
state body is a state body for the purposes of this chapter.
   (d) A board, commission, committee, or similar multimember body on
which a member of a body that is a state body pursuant to this
section serves in his or her official capacity as a representative of
that state body and that is supported, in whole or in part, by funds
provided by that state body, whether the multimember body is
organized and operated by the state body or a private corporation.
  SEC. 2.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order to avoid unnecessary litigation and ensure the people's
right to access of the meetings of public bodies pursuant to Section
3 of Article 1 of the California Constitution, it is necessary that
act take effect immediately.