BILL NUMBER: AB 1723 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN SENATE AUGUST 6, 2012
AMENDED IN SENATE JUNE 27, 2012
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MAY 1, 2012
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 24, 2012
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 10, 2012
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MARCH 19, 2012
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Fuentes
(Coauthor: Senator Lieu)
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 a specified auxiliary organization, 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 , as
specified, and to archive and post the video and audio
transmissions on the entity's Internet Web site for at least 12
months and within 48 hours 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 all
of the following:
(1) (A) 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)
(i) Cable, satellite, or any other type of transmission
that can be accessed through a television.
(B)
(ii) 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.
(B) If the meeting described in subparagraph (A) is conducted from
more than one location at the same time, through a teleconference or
a similar technology, the live video transmission shall be provided
from at least one of the locations and the live audio transmission
shall be provided from all locations.
(2) Provide public notice before the meeting regarding which
location or locations the live video transmission will be provided
from pursuant to paragraph (1).
(2)
(3) 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 and within 48 hours following the initial
transmission.
(b) It is not a violation of this section if technical failures
prevent an entity from providing a live video or audio transmission,
or archiving or posting the video and audio transmission, so long as
the entity exercised reasonable diligence in making a live video or
audio transmission available and archiving and posting the video and
audio transmission.