BILL NUMBER: AB 23	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 1, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 14, 2011

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 amended, Smyth. Local agency meetings: simultaneous
meetings: compensation disclosure.
   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 authorize a convened legislative body whose
membership constitutes a quorum of any other legislative body to
convene a meeting of the  second   2nd 
legislative body, simultaneously or in serial order, only if a clerk
or member of the convened legislative body verbally announces the
amount of compensation or stipend  , if any,  that each
member will be entitled to receive as a result of convening the
simultaneous or serial meeting of the  second  
2nd  legislative body  , and that the compensation or
stipend shall be provided as a result of convening a meeting for
which each member is entitled to collect compensation or a stipend
 , as specified.
   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.  (a) A legislative body that has convened a meeting and
whose membership constitutes a quorum of any other legislative body
may convene a meeting of that other legislative body, simultaneously
or in serial order, only if a clerk or a member of the convened
legislative body verbally announces, prior to convening that second
meeting, the amount of compensation or stipend  , if any, 
that each member will be entitled to receive as a result of convening
the simultaneous or serial meeting of the second legislative body
 and identifies that the compensation or stipend shall be
provided as   a result of convening a meeting for which each
member is entitled to collect compensation or a stipend  .
However, the clerk or member of the legislative body shall not be
required to announce the amount of compensation  authorized
by Section 34130.5 of the Health and Safety Code.   if
the amount of compensation is prescribed in statute and no additional
compensation has been authorized by a local agency. 
   (b) For purposes of this section, compensation and stipend shall
not include amounts reimbursed for actual and necessary expenses
incurred by a member in the performance of the member's official
duties, including, but not limited to, reimbursement of expenses
relating to travel, meals, and lodging.