The Florida Senate

HB 589: Public Meetings

GENERAL BILL by Newton

Public Meetings; Specifies that certain boards and commissions are subject to public meetings requirements; revises public meeting notice requirements; provides that member of public has right to speak at public meeting; requires members of board or commission to respond to questions made at public meetings within a specified timeframe; repeals provision relating to reasonable opportunity to be heard at public meetings; provides penalties.

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• Bill History

  Date	Chamber	Action
  11/8/2017	House	• Filed
  11/15/2017	House	• Referred to Oversight, Transparency and Administration Subcommittee; Local, Federal and Veterans Affairs Subcommittee; Government Accountability Committee -HJ 51
  1/9/2018	House	• Introduced -HJ 51
  3/10/2018	House	• Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration • Died in Oversight, Transparency and Administration Subcommittee

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• HB 589, Original Filed Version (Current Bill Version) Posted 11/8/2017 at 1:50 PM

  Bill Text:	PDF

  Analyses:	None

  Related Bills (1)

  Bill Number	Subject	Filed By	Relationship	Last Action and Location	Track Bills
  S 1092	Public Meetings	Rader	Similar	Last Action: 3/10/2018 S Died in Governmental Oversight and Accountability

  Citations - Statutes (2)

  Citation	Catchline	Location in Bill Location In Bill Help
  286.011	Public meetings and records; public inspection; criminal and civil penalties.	Page 2 (pdf)
  286.0114	Public meetings; reasonable opportunity to be heard; attorney fees.	Page 9 (pdf)

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