BILL NUMBER: AB 23	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	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:  prohibition.   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 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.  
   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 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 that each member will be entitled to receive as a result of
convening the simultaneous or serial meeting of the second
legislative body, 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.  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. 
    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
that each member will be entitled to receive as a result of convening
the simultaneous or serial meeting of the second legislative body.
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.
   (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.