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Conference committee accepts amendment and gives due pass to Senate Bill 2180, narrows public-comment scope
Summary
A conference committee accepted an amendment and recommended a due pass for Senate Bill 2180, which limits public comment at meetings of public entities to matters on the current meeting agenda or the immediately preceding meeting.
Chairman Castaneda convened the conference committee on Senate Bill 2180 and the panel accepted a committee amendment before giving the bill a "due pass" to be returned to the chambers.
The accepted amendment (committee proposal labeled 2003) narrows the scope of permitted public comment by allowing public entities to limit comment to matters that were on the agendas for the current meeting and at least one preceding meeting. Committee members described the change as a rewording and a single substantive addition that clarifies the temporal and topical limits on comment.
The bill’s short title was read into the record as relating to "the opportunity to provide public comment at a meeting of public entity."…
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