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Bill Detail: HB24-1168

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Title Equal Access to Public Meetings
Status House Committee on Appropriations Lay Over Unamended - Amendment(s) Failed (05/14/2024)
Bill Subjects
  • Local Government
  • State Government
House Sponsors M. Froelich (D)
M. Rutinel (D)
Senate Sponsors N. Hinrichsen (D)
House Committee Transportation, Housing and Local Government
Senate Committee
Date Introduced 01/31/2024
Summary

The bill requires state and local public bodies (public bodies) to
ensure that the following accessibility requirements are implemented by
July 1, 2025:
  • Any public meeting at which public business is discussed,
formal action may be taken, or recommendations to the
governing body of the public body may be discussed
(meeting) held by a public body is required to be accessible
in real time by live streaming video or audio that is
recorded and accessible to individuals with disabilities;
  • A public body is required to post on its website, at least 24
hours before a meeting, any documents that will be
distributed during the meeting;
  • For any meeting of a public body during which public
testimony will be heard, the public body is required to
allow any individual to participate in the meeting and offer
public testimony by using a video conferencing platform
unless the meeting occurs in a geographic location that
lacks broadband internet service; and
  • A public body is required to provide any auxiliary aids or
services requested in time for the meeting for which they
were requested. A public body may require that a request
for auxiliary aids or services to attend a meeting of the
public body with the use of the video conferencing
platform be made up to 7 days before the date of the
meeting.
Nothing in the bill prohibits a public body from promulgating rules
for the administration of public testimony so long as the rules apply to
both in-person and remote testimony, and nothing in the bill requires a
public body to provide hardware or software or internet or phone access
at an individual's home.
The failure of any public body to comply with the applicable
requirements of the bill constitutes discrimination on the basis of
disability. Any individual who is subjected to a violation is entitled to
seek relief as currently provided in law.

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