BILL NUMBER: SB 671	CHAPTERED  07/05/01

	CHAPTER  45
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  JULY 5, 2001
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  JULY 4, 2001
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  JUNE 21, 2001
	PASSED THE SENATE  MAY 14, 2001
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 8, 2001
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 24, 2001

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Poochigian

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2001

   An act to add Section 54957.10 to the Government Code, relating to
public meetings.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 671, Poochigian.  Local agency meetings:  closed sessions.
   The Ralph M. Brown Act requires that the meetings of the
legislative body of a local agency be conducted openly and publicly,
with specified exceptions.  The act also provides that the
legislative body of a local agency may hold closed sessions for
specified purposes.
   This bill would authorize the legislative body of a local agency
to hold closed sessions to discuss a local agency employee's
application for early withdrawal of funds in a deferred compensation
plan when the application is based on financial hardship arising from
an unforeseeable emergency due to illness, accident, casualty, or
other extraordinary event.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 54957.10 is added to the Government Code, to
read:
   54957.10.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a
legislative body of a local agency may hold closed sessions to
discuss a local agency employee's application for early withdrawal of
funds in a deferred compensation plan when the application is based
on financial hardship arising from an unforeseeable emergency due to
illness, accident, casualty, or other extraordinary event, as
specified in the deferred compensation plan.