SCASB1 471 1294 SENATE COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS Regular Session ENROLLEDAmendments SENATEproposed BILLby NO.Senate Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs to Original Senate Bill No.

1 BYby SENATORSenator JENKINSJenkins ANDAMENDMENT REPRESENTATIVESNO. BACALA, CARRIER, FISHER, JACKSON, LAFLEUR, LARVADAIN, LYONS, MARCELLE, NEWELL AND WALTERS AN ACT ToamendandreenactR.S.42:14(C),relativetotheOpenMeetingsLaw;toprovideforviva voce voting;

to1 provideOn forpage electronic1, voting;line 10, after "document." delete the remainder of the line and delete lines 11 through 13 and insert the following:

and"Anyvotebyanindividualmemberofapublicbody tothatisdisplayedand providerecorded forusing relatedelectronic matters.machines shall satisfy the concept of viva voce voting requirements of the Open Meetings Law.

Be" itPage enacted1 by the Legislature of Louisiana:1

Section 1.

R.S.

42:14(C) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:

§14.

Meetings of public bodies to be open to the public * * * C.

All votes made bymembers of a public bodyshall be viva voce and shall berecordedintheminutes,journal,orotherofficial,writtenproceedingsofthebody, which shall be a public document.

Any vote by an individual member of a public body that is displayed and recorded using electronic machines shall satisfy the concept of viva voce voting requirements of the Open Meetings Law.

* * * Section 2.

The provisions of this Act shall be applied retroactively.

PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA APPROVED:

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Words which are struck through are deletions from existing law;

words in boldface type and underscored are additions.