plaintiff shall receive any penalties awarded WTF is this bill even under consideration? and you thought Govt bodies were already SLOW... It will be near impossible for Govt to accomplish anything if this joke of a piece of legislation were allowed to pass. Wait a minute... Didnt the Alabama Press Association write this legislation? I guess if their business model of selling papers is not profitable, they will be acting as plaintiffs and hoping to cash in. Contact your REP and Senator and STOP this NOW! Alabama Open Meeting Act – HB244 by Rep. Hill would define and expressly prohibit serial meetings; would further define the terms deliberation, governmental body, and meeting, to clarify that the Open Meetings Act of 2005 applies to meetings of the Alabama Legislature, committees, or subcommittees of governmental bodies involving the exchange of information or ideas among a quorum of members of the committee, subcommittee, or full governmental body intended to arrive at or influence a decision as to how any members of the governmental body should vote on a specific matter that, at the time of the exchange, the participating members expect to come before the committee, subcommittee, or full governmental body immediately following the discussion or at a later time; would provide that both houses of the Alabama Legislature and their committees shall meet in public unless there is a public vote taken by the respective house or committee that the meeting requires secrecy; would provide that private citizens may bring civil actions under the Open Meetings Act, that penalties may not exceed the greater of one thousand dollars or one-half the monthly salary of a defendant for service on the governmental body, and that the prevailing plaintiff shall receive any penalties awarded against the defendants. RFD: Ethics & Campaign Finance
Posted on: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 18:27:06 +0000
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