Bill Text: HI HB369 | 2016 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Open Government; Access to Records; Public Participation
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-19 - Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Nakashima, Thielen, Tokioka excused (3). [HB369 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2016-HB369-Amended.html
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TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2015 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO OPEN GOVERNMENT.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 92-3, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§92-3 Open meetings[.] and
participation. Every meeting of all boards shall be open to the public,
and all persons shall be permitted to attend any meeting and provide public
input unless otherwise provided in the constitution or as closed pursuant
to sections 92-4 and 92-5; provided that the removal of any person or persons
who wilfully [disrupts] disrupt a meeting to prevent and
compromise the conduct of the meeting shall not be prohibited. The boards shall
afford all interested persons an opportunity to view, either electronically
or in hard copy, documents, reports, or proposals under consideration at the
meeting at the time the agenda is made available to the public, except for
records that are protected from disclosure by chapter 92F. The boards shall
afford all interested persons an opportunity to submit data, views, or
arguments, in writing, and to present oral testimony on any agenda item[.
The boards shall also afford all interested persons an opportunity to present
oral testimony on any agenda item.] before a decision is made or a vote
is taken. The boards may provide for reasonable administration of oral
testimony by rule."
SECTION 2. Section 92-9, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:
"(b) The minutes and video or sound recordings of the meeting made by the board shall be public records and shall be available to the public within thirty days after the meeting, regardless of whether the board has formally reviewed or approved the minutes, except where such disclosure would be inconsistent with section 92-5; provided that minutes of executive meetings may be withheld so long as their publication would defeat the lawful purpose of the executive meeting, but no longer."
SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Report Title:
Open Government; Access to Records; Public Participation
Description:
Broadens the policies regarding public access to meetings of public agencies to include greater public participation, input, and access to documents, reports, recordings, and proposals under consideration at meetings, with certain limitations. (HB369 HD1)
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