HOUSE BILL No. 6295

 

June 27, 2008, Introduced by Reps. Proos and Mayes and referred to the Committee on Intergovernmental, Urban and Regional Affairs.

 

     A bill to amend 1976 PA 267, entitled

 

"Open meetings act,"

 

by amending section 2 (MCL 15.262), as amended by 2001 PA 38.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 2. As used in this act:

 

     (a) "Public body" means any state or local legislative or

 

governing body, including a board, commission, committee,

 

subcommittee, authority, or council, that is empowered by state

 

constitution, statute, charter, ordinance, resolution, or rule to

 

exercise governmental or proprietary authority or perform a

 

governmental or proprietary function; a lessee of such a body

 

performing an essential public purpose and function pursuant to the

 

lease agreement; the board of a nonprofit corporation formed by a

 


county; or the board of a nonprofit corporation formed by a city

 

under section 4o of the home rule city act, 1909 PA 279, MCL

 

117.4o.

 

     (b) "Meeting" means the convening of a public body at which a

 

quorum is present for the purpose of deliberating toward or

 

rendering a decision on a public policy, any meeting of the board

 

of a nonprofit corporation formed by a county, or any meeting of

 

the board of a nonprofit corporation formed by a city under section

 

4o of the home rule city act, 1909 PA 279, MCL 117.4o.

 

     (c) "Closed session" means a meeting or part of a meeting of a

 

public body that is closed to the public.

 

     (d) "Decision" means a determination, action, vote, or

 

disposition upon a motion, proposal, recommendation, resolution,

 

order, ordinance, bill, or measure on which a vote by members of a

 

public body is required and by which a public body effectuates or

 

formulates public policy.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect

 

unless Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 6294(request no.

 

06021'07) of the 94th Legislature is enacted into law.