Bill Text: NJ A3674 | 2018-2019 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires municipalities and boards of education record public meetings and post recordings on Internet.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-09-17 - Reported out of Asm. Comm. with Amendments, and Referred to Assembly Appropriations Committee [A3674 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2018-A3674-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 3674

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

218th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED MARCH 13, 2018

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  CAROL A. MURPHY

District 7 (Burlington)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires municipalities and boards of education record public meetings and post recordings on Internet.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Assembly State and Local Government Committee on September 17, 2018, with amendments.

  

An Act requiring municipalities and boards of education to record public meetings and post recordings on the Internet and amending P.L.1975, c.231. 

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    Section 9 of P.L.1975, c.231 (C.10:4-14) is amended to read as follows: 

     9.    a.  Each public body shall keep reasonably comprehensible minutes of all its meetings showing the time and place, the members present, the subjects considered, the actions taken, the vote of each member, and any other information required to be shown in the minutes by law, which shall be promptly available to the public to the extent that making such matters public shall not be inconsistent with section 7 of this act.

     b.    Each municipality and board of education shall cause to be recorded by video recording devices all meetings, including any emergency meeting held pursuant to section 4 of P.L.1975, c.231 (C.10:4-9), and shall post such recordings on the official Internet site of the municipality or board of education.  The minutes of a meeting of a municipality or board of education shall include any video recording of the meeting made by the municipality or board of education, and such recording shall be available to the public on the same basis as other meeting minutes and on the Internet site of the municipality or board of education.  All recordings of meetings or portions of meetings closed ¹to the public¹ pursuant to subsection b. of section 7 of P.L.1975, c.231 (C.10:4-12) shall be ¹[deemed confidential and shall not be]¹ considered ¹[a]¹ public ¹[record] records¹ under P.L.1963, c.73 (C.47:1A-1 et seq.) ¹when originally made, and shall be released to the public at the time the meeting minutes, or portions thereof, may legally be released to the public.  Only those portions of the recordings that correspond to the accessible minutes shall be released.  At that time, the accessible recordings, or portions thereof, shall also be posted on the official Internet site of the municipality or board of education¹.

(cf: P.L.1975, c.231, s.9)

 

     ¹[3.] 2.¹     This act shall take effect thirty days after the date of enactment, except municipalities or boards of education may take any anticipatory administrative action in advance as shall be necessary for the implementation of this act.