BILL NUMBER: AB 1723	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 19, 2012

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Fuentes

                        FEBRUARY 16, 2012

   An act to amend Section 66020.5 of the Education Code, relating to
public postsecondary education.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1723, as amended, Fuentes. Postsecondary educational
institutions: meetings: live audio transmission.
   Existing law requires the Board of Governors of the California
Community Colleges, the Trustees of the California State University,
the California Postsecondary Education Commission, and the Student
Aid Commission, including specified auxiliary organizations, and
requests the Regents of the University of California, to provide for
live audio transmission of all meetings, which are open to the public
pursuant to specified law, through a technology that is accessible
to as large a segment of the public as possible, including, but not
necessarily limited to, the use of cable, satellite, over-the-air, or
any other type of transmission that can be accessed though a
television.
   This bill would  require those entities, and request the
regents, also to provide for live video   transmissions and
to archive and post the video and audio transmissions on the entity's
Internet Web site for at least 12 months. The bill would 
remove over-the-air transmissions from the list of transmissions that
can be accessed through a television.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no
  yes  . State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 66020.5 of the Education Code is amended to
read:
   66020.5.  (a) The Board of Governors of the California Community
Colleges, the Trustees of the California State University, the
California Postsecondary Education Commission, and the Student Aid
Commission, including any auxiliary organization established pursuant
to Section 69522, shall, and the Regents of the University of
California are requested to,  provide   do both
of the following: 
    (1)     Provide  for live  video
and  audio transmission of all meetings, which are open to the
public pursuant to the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act (Article 9
(commencing with Section 11120) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 3
of Title 2 of the Government Code), through a technology that is
accessible to as large a segment of the public as possible,
including, but not necessarily limited to, the use of either of the
following technologies: 
   (1) 
    (A)  Cable, satellite, or any other type of transmission
that can be accessed through a television. 
   (2) 
    (B)  Web cast, in which case notice of meetings that are
open to the public and links to the Web cast shall be easily
accessible via each entity's Internet Web site. 
   (2) Archive and post the video and audio transmissions recorded
pursuant to paragraph (1) on the entity's Internet Web site for at
least 12 months.  
   (b) 
    (c)  It is not a violation of this section if technical
failures prevent an entity from providing a live audio transmission
so long as the entity exercised reasonable diligence in making a live
audio transmission available.
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