Bill Text: MN HF653 | 2013-2014 | 88th Legislature | Engrossed
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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-Engrossed.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-Engrossed.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 members of a public body otherwise
1.12subject to this chapter, so long as:
1.13(i) the social media forums are open to public participation;
1.14(ii) the social media forums have been first identified by the public body at a public
1.15meeting and a list of the identified social media forums is kept on file at the primary
1.16offices of the public body;
1.17(iii) participation is limited to discussion only and no decision or vote is made
1.18or taken;
1.19(iv) the use of social media forums is not the sole means of deliberation by the
1.20public body; and
1.21(v) participation does not take the place of any required public meeting or hearing.
1.22"Social media" means forms of Web-based and mobile technologies for communication,
1.23such as Web sites for social networking and microblogging, through which users participate
1.24in online communities to share information, ideas, messages, and other content; or
2.1(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 members of a public body otherwise
1.12subject to this chapter, so long as:
1.13(i) the social media forums are open to public participation;
1.14(ii) the social media forums have been first identified by the public body at a public
1.15meeting and a list of the identified social media forums is kept on file at the primary
1.16offices of the public body;
1.17(iii) participation is limited to discussion only and no decision or vote is made
1.18or taken;
1.19(iv) the use of social media forums is not the sole means of deliberation by the
1.20public body; and
1.21(v) participation does not take the place of any required public meeting or hearing.
1.22"Social media" means forms of Web-based and mobile technologies for communication,
1.23such as Web sites for social networking and microblogging, through which users participate
1.24in online communities to share information, ideas, messages, and other content; or
2.1(4) as otherwise expressly provided by statute.
