BILL NUMBER: AB 1723	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 10, 2012
	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  video and  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  following the initial transmission 
. 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: 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, 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:
   (A) Cable, satellite, or any other type of transmission that can
be accessed through a television.
   (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  following the initial transmission  .

   (c) 
    (b)  It is not a violation of this section if technical
failures prevent an entity from providing a live  video or 
audio transmission so long as the entity exercised reasonable
diligence in making a live  video or  audio transmission
available.