Recording legislative and other meetings.

2016
State of Wyoming
16LSO-0135
Introduced
1.3

HOUSE BILL

NO.

HB0103

Recording legislative and other meetings.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Loucks, Krone and Zwonitzer, Dn. and Senator(s) Meier

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to the legislature; requiring the legislative service office to record interim committee meetings and other meetings as specified; providing that communications audible on a recording are not privileged as specified; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1
.

W.S. 28
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8
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105(
a) by creating a new paragraph (vii)
and 28
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8
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116(a)(intro) and by creating a new subsection (d) are
amended to read:

28
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8
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105
.

Duties of director and staff; prefiling bills; fiscal notes.

(a)

It shall be the duty of the director and staff to perform the following specific functions, together with such other functions as the council may prescribe:

(vii)

Prepare an audio recording of each meeting of a joint interim commi
ttee, select committee or other
meeting
held in a public forum
of any task force or group
that is staffed by the office and post a copy of the recording to the website of the legislature
within one (1) month of the
last day
of the meeting
.

Nothing in this paragraph shall require an audio recording of any portion of a meeting which is conducted in executive session and nothing in this paragraph shall be deemed to waive or modify any law related to public records, publ
ic meetings or the legislature.

28
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8
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116
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Confidential
communications.

(
a
)

Except as otherwise provided in subsection (d) of this section and u
nless the privilege is waived by the individual legislator involved, the following shall be deemed confidential and privileged:

(d)

A communication made by a legislator which would otherwise be confidential and privileged under this section shall not be deemed confidential and privileged to the extent that the communication is audible on a recording of a public meeting as provided in W.S. 28
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8
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105(
a)(vii). Nothing in this subsection shall be deemed to waive the privilege for any communication or portion of a communication that is not audible on the recording.

Section
2
.

This act is effective immediately upon completion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constitution.

(END)

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