Amendment ASA3-AB388

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2015 - 2016 LEGISLATURE

ASSEMBLY SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT 3, TO ASSEMBLY BILL 388

October 15, 2015 - Offered by Representatives Berceau, Kessler and Zamarripa.

AB388-ASA3,1,2 An Act to amend 19.851 of the statutes; relating to: recording the closed sessions of the Government Accountability Board.

Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau

This substitute amendment requires the Government Accountability Board (board) to make audio and visual recordings of all closed sessions convened by the board. Current law allows the board to meet in closed session to deliberate on matters concerning the investigation of alleged violations of the law under the jurisdiction of the board's ethics and accountability division.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

AB388-ASA3,1 Section 1. 19.851 of the statutes is amended to read:

AB388-ASA3,2,10 19.851 Closed sessions by government accountability board. The government accountability board shall hold each meeting of the board for the purpose of deliberating concerning an investigation of any violation of the law under the jurisdiction of the ethics and accountability division of the board in closed session under this section. Prior to convening under this section, the government accountability board shall vote to convene in closed session in the manner provided in s. 19.85 (1). No business may be conducted by the government accountability board at any closed session under this section except that which relates to the purposes of the session as authorized in this section or as authorized in s. 19.85 (1). The government accountability board shall make an audio and visual recording of all closed sessions convened under this section and shall maintain the recordings in the same manner as it would other records of closed sessions convened under this section.

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