Loading chat...

FL H0843

Bill

Status

Introduced

2/15/2017

Primary Sponsor

Oversight, Transparency and Administration Subcommittee

Click for details

Origin

House of Representatives

2017 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Exempts private meetings between two members of boards or commissions from public meetings requirements if the board or commission has at least five total members.

  • Allows these two-member meetings to occur without public notice or recording, provided the members do not adopt resolutions, rules, or formal actions and do not discuss appropriations, contracts, or public business involving direct expenditure of public funds to private vendors.

  • Prohibits the meeting from being intended to frustrate or circumvent the purposes of public meetings law.

  • Makes the exemption subject to the Open Government Sunset Review Act and automatically repeals on October 2, 2022, unless the Legislature reenacts it.

  • Takes effect July 1, 2017.

Legislative Description

Pub. Meetings/Meetings Between Two Members of Board or Commission

Last Action

CS failed to pass; YEAS 68 NAYS 48

5/2/2017

Committee Referrals

Government Accountability Committee3/31/2017
Oversight, Transparency and Administration Subcommittee2/23/2017

Full Bill Text

No bill text available