Bill Text: MN HF653 | 2013-2014 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Social media communications not considered meetings under open meeting law.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-04-25 - Author stricken Murphy, M. [HF653 Detail]
Download: Minnesota-2013-HF653-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Social media communications not considered meetings under open meeting law.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-04-25 - Author stricken Murphy, M. [HF653 Detail]
Download: Minnesota-2013-HF653-Introduced.html
1.2relating to open meeting law; providing that certain communications on social
1.3media are not meetings under the law;amending Minnesota Statutes 2012,
1.4section 13D.01, subdivision 2.
1.5BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.6 Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 13D.01, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
1.7 Subd. 2. Exceptions. This chapter does not apply:
1.8(1) to meetings of the commissioner of corrections;
1.9(2) to a state agency, board, or commission when it is exercising quasi-judicial
1.10functions involving disciplinary proceedings;or
1.11(3) to participation in social media forums by a member of a public body otherwise
1.12subject to this chapter, whether or not a quorum of the public body is participating, when
1.13participation is intended to augment traditional communication methods. The social
1.14media forum must be generally open to public participation. Simultaneous or serial
1.15participation by a quorum or more of members of a public body otherwise subject to this
1.16chapter in a forum or section of a forum that the members know is not open to general
1.17public participation is not exempt under this paragraph. Participation in a social media
1.18forum shall not replace any required public meeting or hearing and no vote of any entity
1.19otherwise subject to this section shall be taken by means of a social media forum. "Social
1.20media" means forms of Web-based and mobile technologies for communication, such as
1.21Web sites for social networking and microblogging, through which users participate in
1.22online communities to share information, ideas, messages, and other content; or
1.23(4) as otherwise expressly provided by statute.
1.3media are not meetings under the law;amending Minnesota Statutes 2012,
1.4section 13D.01, subdivision 2.
1.5BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.6 Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 13D.01, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
1.7 Subd. 2. Exceptions. This chapter does not apply:
1.8(1) to meetings of the commissioner of corrections;
1.9(2) to a state agency, board, or commission when it is exercising quasi-judicial
1.10functions involving disciplinary proceedings;
1.11(3) to participation in social media forums by a member of a public body otherwise
1.12subject to this chapter, whether or not a quorum of the public body is participating, when
1.13participation is intended to augment traditional communication methods. The social
1.14media forum must be generally open to public participation. Simultaneous or serial
1.15participation by a quorum or more of members of a public body otherwise subject to this
1.16chapter in a forum or section of a forum that the members know is not open to general
1.17public participation is not exempt under this paragraph. Participation in a social media
1.18forum shall not replace any required public meeting or hearing and no vote of any entity
1.19otherwise subject to this section shall be taken by means of a social media forum. "Social
1.20media" means forms of Web-based and mobile technologies for communication, such as
1.21Web sites for social networking and microblogging, through which users participate in
1.22online communities to share information, ideas, messages, and other content; or
1.23(4) as otherwise expressly provided by statute.
