Report Title:

Public Agency Meetings; Neighborhood Boards; Exemption

Description:

Exempts county neighborhood boards from the "sunshine law", or chapter 92, HRS, relating to public agency meetings, by amending the definition of the term "board" to exclude county neighborhood boards.

THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	2023
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2008
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

relating to public agency meetings.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

     SECTION 1.  Section 92-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending the definition of "board" to read as follows:

    "(1)  "Board" means any agency, board, commission, authority, or committee of the State or its political subdivisions [which] that is created by constitution, statute, rule, or executive order[,] to have supervision, control, jurisdiction or advisory power over specific matters and [which] that is required to conduct meetings and to take official actions[.]; provided that the term "board" shall not include any county neighborhood board."

     SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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