LRB-1153/1
JTK:nwn:md
2011 - 2012 LEGISLATURE
April 12, 2011 - Introduced by Representatives Mason, Kaufert, Hintz and Roys,
cosponsored by Senators T. Cullen and C. Larson. Referred to Committee on
Judiciary and Ethics.
AB89,1,2 1An Act to repeal 19.87 (3); and to amend 19.87 (2) of the statutes; relating to:
2application of the open meetings law to legislative party caucuses.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Currently, under the open meetings law, with certain exceptions, meetings of
state and local governmental bodies must be preceded by public notice, must be held
in places that are reasonably accessible to the public, and must be open to the public
at all times. If a meeting is properly noticed, a governmental body may, by recorded
vote of a majority of the members present, convene in closed session for the purpose
of considering certain matters specified by law. The open meetings law provides that
the law does not apply to any partisan caucus of the senate or assembly, except as
provided by legislative rule.
This bill deletes the exception in the open meetings law that makes the law
inapplicable to a partisan caucus of the senate or assembly, except as provided by
legislative rule. Under the bill, no rule of the senate or assembly and no joint rule
of the legislature that exempts a partisan caucus of the senate or assembly from
compliance with the open meetings law is valid.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
AB89, s. 1 3Section 1. 19.87 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB89,2,5
119.87 (2) No provision of this subchapter which conflicts with a rule of the
2senate or assembly or joint rule of the legislature shall apply to a meeting conducted
3in compliance with such rule, except that no rule of the senate or assembly and no
4joint rule of the legislature that exempts a partisan caucus of the senate or assembly
5from compliance with this subchapter is valid
.
AB89, s. 2 6Section 2. 19.87 (3) of the statutes is repealed.
AB89,2,77 (End)
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