Bill Text: MI HB4148 | 2019-2020 | 100th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Civil rights: public records; certain boards and commissions; require to record and post meetings. Amends 1976 PA 267 (MCL 15.261 - 15.275) by adding sec. 9a.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-10-30 - Referred To Committee On Ways And Means [HB4148 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2019-HB4148-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 4148

 

 

February 6, 2019, Introduced by Reps. Cherry, Sneller, Ellison, Kennedy, Robinson, Steven Johnson, Leutheuser, Hertel, LaGrand, Sabo, Maddock, Pagan and Cynthia Johnson and referred to the Committee on Oversight.

 

     A bill to amend 1976 PA 267, entitled

 

"Open meetings act,"

 

(MCL 15.261 to 15.275) by adding section 9a.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 9a. A public body that is a rule-making agency under the

 

administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24.201 to

 

24.328, shall produce recordings of all of its meetings that are

 

required to be open to the public under this act and shall make

 

those recordings available to the public on its website or, if it

 

has no website, the website of the state department in which it is

 

located. As used in this section, "recording" means an audio

 

recording or an audio and video recording.