BILL NUMBER: AB 1723	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 22, 2012
	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  , other than the
California Postsecondary Education   Commission, which would
be deleted from this provision  , 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 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:
   (i) Cable, satellite, or any other type of transmission that can
be accessed through a television.
   (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).
   (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.