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S1796Senate2015-2016 SessionSame asA1024

Requires the board of regents to provide a live webcast for their meetings

Sponsor Patty RitchieSD-48+6 co-sponsorsAffects Finance
Status
In Assembly Committee
Ways And Means
Impact
Pending
Passage
Pending

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Primary sponsor
Patty Ritchie

Senator · Senate District 48

Chair, Agriculture

History

  1. Referred to ways and means
  2. Returned to assembly
  3. Repassed senate
  4. Amended on third reading 1796c
  5. Vote reconsidered - restored to third reading
  6. Returned to senate
  7. Recalled from assembly
  8. Referred to education
  9. Delivered to assembly
  10. Passed senateVote 61–0
  11. Amended on third reading 1796b
  12. Ordered to third reading cal.216
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  1. Committee discharged and committed to rules
  2. Referred to education
  3. Print number 1796a
  4. Amend (t) and recommit to education
  5. Referred to education

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A1024Assembly

Requires the board of regents to provide a live webcast of their meetings

In Assembly Committee · Rules · Sponsor Aileen Gunther

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Sponsor's memo

Title of bill

An act to amend the education law, in relation to providing a live webcast for meetings of the board of regents

Purpose

To require that each meeting of the Board of Regents be streamed live and be made available to the public.

Summary of provisions

Section 1 adds a new section 204-a to the education law to require that the entirety of each meeting of the regents be live webcast and made available on the State Education Department's (SED) website. SED would be required to archive each meeting for no less than two years. The Department shall notify each school district superintendent of the upcoming regents meeting and provide information on the availability of and where to obtain the live webcast.

Section 2 is the effective date.

Justification

Currently, the Board of Regents webcasts only a small portion of its monthly meetings. According to the Department's website, the Regents were scheduled to publicly convene for roughly 9 hours for their April 13th-14th, 2015 meetings. However, the Board only webcast and archived about one hour and ten minutes of the proceedings. While the meetings are open to the public, the Board meets primarily at the state education building. Many concerned parents and educators are unable to make the trip to Albany to attend. This bill would give them the ability to stay informed of the Board's decisions regarding educating our children.

Legislative history

2014: A9547/S6856 Referred to Education

Fiscal implications

Minimal.

Effective date

This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall have become a law.

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