Current Status Introducing Body:Senate Bill Number:714 Primary Sponsor:Rose Committee Number:11 Type of Legislation:GB Subject:County legislative delegations, requirements Residing Body:Senate Current Committee:Judiciary Computer Document Number:714 Introduced Date:Feb 27, 1991 Last History Body:Senate Last History Date:Feb 27, 1991 Last History Type:Introduced, read first time, referred to Committee Scope of Legislation:Statewide All Sponsors:Rose Type of Legislation:General Bill
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714 Senate Feb 27, 1991 Introduced, read first time, 11
referred to Committee
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TO AMEND SECTION 30-4-80, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT, SO AS TO SET FORTH THE NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS FOR COUNTY LEGISLATIVE DELEGATIONS.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 30-4-80 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:
"Section 30-4-80. (a) All public bodies, except as provided in subsections (b) and (c) of this section, must give written public notice of their regular meetings at the beginning of each calendar year. The notice must include the dates, times, and places of such meetings. Agenda, if any, for regularly scheduled meetings must be posted on a bulletin board at the office or meeting place of the public body at least twenty-four hours prior to such meetings. All public bodies must post on such bulletin board public notice for any called, special, or rescheduled meetings. Such notice must be posted as early as is practicable but not later than twenty-four hours before the meeting. The notice must include the agenda, date, time, and place of the meeting. This requirement does not apply to emergency meetings of public bodies.
(b) Legislative committees must post their meeting times during weeks of the regular session of the General Assembly and must comply with the provisions for notice of special meetings during those weeks when the General Assembly is not in session. Subcommittees of standing legislative committees must give notice during weeks of the legislative session only if it is practicable to do so.
(c) Subcommittees, other than legislative subcommittees, of committees required to give notice under subsection (a), must make reasonable and timely efforts to give notice of their meetings.
(d) Legislative delegations must give written public notice of their regularly scheduled meetings at the beginning of each calendar year as provided in subsection 1(a) above. Legislative delegations shall provide written notice of all other scheduled meetings to all parties requesting notification, to all newspapers of general circulation and to other media regularly covering news in the county, to the extent practicable, at least one week prior to the meeting. This notice must include the date, place, and time of these meetings. The agenda, if any, for meetings must be posted at the office or meeting place of the public body at least forty-eight hours prior to the meeting. If the meeting is to be held in Columbia, the notice of the meeting and agenda must be posted in the lobbies of both the Gressette and Blatt Office Buildings. If the meeting is to be held within the district, the notice of the meeting and the agenda must be posted at the office of the county legislative delegation or where notices of regularly scheduled meetings of the county governing body are held.
Nothing in this section shall prevent legislative delegations from meeting to discuss pending legislation during the legislative session. However, the notification requirements above must be complied with, to the extent practicable, and the efforts made to comply with these requirements and the exigent circumstances which warranted the meeting to discuss pending legislation without more notice to the public and the press must be noted in the minutes of the meeting.
(d) (e) Written public notice must include but need not be limited to posting a copy of the notice at the principal office of the public body holding the meeting or, if no such office exists, at the building in which the meeting is to be held.
(e) (f) All public bodies shall notify persons or organizations, local news media, or such other news media as may request notification of the times, dates, places, and agenda of all public meetings, whether scheduled, rescheduled, or called, and the efforts made to comply with this requirement must be noted in the minutes of the meetings."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.