BILL NUMBER: AB 1723	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


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 introduced, 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 remove over-the-air transmissions from the list of
transmissions that can be accessed through a television.
   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 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 for live 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) Cable, satellite,  over-the-air,  or any
other type of transmission that can be accessed  though
  through  a television.
   (2) 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) 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.