Bill Text: CA AB2252 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Broadband infrastructure: disasters: reports.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-19 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB2252 Detail]
Download: California-2021-AB2252-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Assembly
March 03, 2022 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Aguiar-Curry |
February 16, 2022 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted
with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest.
This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: YESBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 914.8 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to read:914.8.
(a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:The Legislature finds and declares that Section 1 of this act, which adds Section 914.8 to the Public Utilities Code, imposes a limitation on the public’s right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies within the meaning of Section 3 of Article I of the California Constitution. Pursuant to that constitutional provision, the Legislature makes the following findings to demonstrate the interest protected by this limitation and the need for protecting that interest:
The interests in withholding information from the public that, if disclosed, presents a security threat to the public, to the property of a broadband service provider, or the employees of a broadband service provider outweighs the
benefits of public disclosure of that information.