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Committee hears bill to modernize remote participation rules for local boards; laid over
Summary
Senate File 787 would relax restrictions on remote attendance for local elected bodies (e.g., school boards), remove unsafe notice requirements and allow more than three remote meetings in certain circumstances; the committee heard multiple school-board witnesses and laid the bill over.
Senate File 787, a measure to amend Minnesota’s open-meeting law to modernize remote participation rules for local governing bodies, was heard March 11 by the Senate State and Local Government Committee and laid over.
The bill’s sponsor, Sen. Mann, described changes intended to remove statutory barriers that prevent officials from participating remotely when unavoidable circumstances arise — for example, when a member must stay…
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