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Committee hears competing views on bill to require some public-comment opportunities at local meetings; decision deferred
Summary
The House Political Subdivisions Committee heard testimony but did not take a vote on Senate Bill 21-80, which would require political subdivisions to provide public-comment opportunities at a portion of regular, publicly noticed meetings.
The House Political Subdivisions Committee took testimony on Senate Bill 21-80, a proposal that would require political subdivisions to provide opportunities for public comment at a portion of their regular, publicly noticed meetings. The committee did not vote and deferred further action to allow more work on the bill.
Senator Bob Paulson, sponsor of SB 21-80, said the bill is intended to protect citizens’ ability to “redress their government” and described examples in which parents or other residents were unable to speak at local governing-body meetings because comment opportunities were limited to annual meetings or constrained by agenda rules. The amended version presented to the committee would require that at least one-quarter of a…
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