Bill Text

Bill Information


Bill PDF |Add To My Favorites | print page

AB-1031 Local government: open meetings.(2013-2014)

SHARE THIS: share this bill in Facebook share this bill in Twitter
AB1031:v99#DOCUMENT


CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2013–2014 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill
No. 1031

Introduced by Assembly Member Achadjian

February 22, 2013

An act to amend Section 54950 of the Government Code, relating to local government.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AB 1031, as introduced, Achadjian. Local government: open meetings.
Existing law, the Ralph M. Brown Act, requires each legislative body of a local agency to provide notice of the time and place for holding regular meetings and an agenda containing a brief general description of each item of business to be transacted. The act also requires that all meetings of a legislative body be open and public and all persons be permitted to attend unless a closed session is authorized.
This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to a provision of the Ralph M. Brown Act.
Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:


SECTION 1.

 Section 54950 of the Government Code is amended to read:

54950.
 (a) In enacting this chapter, the Legislature finds and declares that the public commissions, boards and, councils, and the other public agencies in this State state exist to aid in the conduct of the people’s business. It is the intent of the law that their actions be taken openly and that their deliberations be conducted openly.

The

(b) The people of this State state do not yield their sovereignty to the agencies which that serve them. The people, in delegating authority, do not give their public servants the right to decide what is good for the people to know and what is not good for them to know. The people insist on remaining informed, so that they may retain control over the instruments they have created.