Fiscal Summary

Decrease State Expenditures – Exceeds $45,600/FY23-24 and Subsequent Years Decrease Local Expenditures – Exceeds $265,200/FY23-24 and Subsequent Years/Permissive Other Fiscal Impact – A precise, recurring impact to state expenditures related to mailing newsletters cannot be reasonably determined. Additionally, any recurring mandatory or permissive increase to local expenditures cannot be estimated. *

Bill Summary

Present law requires a governmental body, subject to the open meetings law, that holds a meeting previously scheduled by statute, ordinance, or resolution to give adequate public notice of the meeting. Such governmental body that holds a meeting not previously scheduled by statute, ordinance, or resolution, or for which notice is not already provided by law, must give adequate public notice of the meeting. These notice requirements are in addition to any other notice required by law.

This bill provides that, in lieu of providing adequate notice by publication in a newspaper of general circulation or by other means, a governmental body may provide adequate notice by publishing notice of the meeting on a secure internet website of the governmental body, if available. If the governmental body publishes an e-newsletter or its notices online, then the governmental body must establish a mechanism by which a person may sign up to receive such notices and e-newsletters by electronic mail, or, alternatively, to receive a hardcopy by regular mail.