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Bill Detail: HB24-1303

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Title Colorado Open Meetings Law for the General Assembly
Status House Committee on Judiciary Postpone Indefinitely (04/09/2024)
Bill Subjects
  • State Government
House Sponsors E. Epps (D)
Senate Sponsors
House Committee Judiciary
Senate Committee
Date Introduced 02/14/2024
Summary

The bill makes several modifications and clarifications to the
application of the Colorado Open Meetings Law (COML) to any state
public body of the general assembly. The bill clarifies that a meeting of
any political party caucus, which are the caucuses associated with each
major political party in each chamber of the general assembly, is subject
to the provisions of the COML if the meeting relates to the public
business of the general assembly and excludes any other type of caucus
made up of members of the general assembly from the provisions of the
COML. Additionally, the bill establishes that serial meetings, which are
a series of meetings between 2 or more members of a state public body
that individually do not constitute a meeting of a quorum of the body but
collectively constitute a meeting of a quorum of the body, are a violation
of the COML.
The bill modifies the provisions of the COML concerning written
electronic communication between members of a state public body of the
general assembly by excluding such communication, regardless of the
length of time the communication is available for, from the requirements
of the COML unless the communication occurs contemporaneously
between a quorum of a state public body of the general assembly during
a meeting of the body and is concerning public business and unless the
communication constitutes a serial meeting. In both instances, such
communication is a violation of the COML. The bill clarifies that written
electronic communication may be subject to the provisions of the
Colorado Open Records Act.
The bill also modifies certain requirements for notice and minutes
required for meetings of state public bodies of the general assembly.
Notice must specify any applicable statutory provisions for the notice.
Minutes must include the names of all members of the general assembly
in attendance, whether their attendance was in-person, virtual, or a hybrid
of both, and note if a recording of the meeting was made.

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