BILL NUMBER: AB 23	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Smyth

                        DECEMBER 6, 2010

   An act to add Section 54952.3 to the Government Code, relating to
local government.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 23, as introduced, Smyth. Local agency meetings: simultaneous
meetings: prohibition.
   Existing law, the Ralph M. Brown Act, requires each legislative
body of a local agency to provide the time and place for holding
regular meetings and 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 prohibit the members of a legislative body, during
a meeting of that legislative body, from convening simultaneous or
serial order meetings of any other legislative body for which the
members of the convened legislative body constitute at least a
quorum, except as provided.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 54952.3 is added to the Government Code, to
read:
   54952.3.  During the meeting of a legislative body, the members of
that legislative body shall not convene other meetings of any other
legislative body, simultaneously or in serial order, where the
members of the previously convened legislative body constitute at
least a quorum of the legislative body that is attempting to convene
a meeting. This section shall not apply to legislative bodies that
are expressly authorized by statute to convene meetings
simultaneously or in serial order.