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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2nd Session of the 58th Legislature (2022)
HOUSE BILL 3063 By: Ranson
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to the Open Meeting Act; amending 25
O.S. 2021, Section 304, which relates to definitions;
modifying definition; excluding organizations
composed of students attending certain institutions
within The Oklahoma State System of Higher Educ ation
or other colleges; and providing an effective date .
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 25 O.S. 2021, Section 301, is
amended to read as follows:
Section 301. As used in the Oklahoma Open Meeting Act:
1. "Public body" means the governing bodies of all
municipalities located within this stat e, boards of county
commissioners of the counties in this state, boards of public and
higher education in this state and all boards, bureaus, commissions,
agencies, trusteeships, authorities, councils, committees, public
trusts or any entity created by a p ublic trust, including any
committee or subcommittee composed of any of the members of a public
trust or other legal entity receiving funds from the Rural Economic
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Action Plan Fund as authorized by Section 2007 of Title 62 of the
Oklahoma Statutes, task fo rces or study groups in this state
supported in whole or in part by public funds or entrusted with the
expending of public funds, or administering public property, and
shall include all committees or subcommittees of any public body.
Public body shall not include the state judiciary, the Council on
Judicial Complaints when conducting, discussing, or de liberating any
matter relating to a complaint received or filed with the Council,
the Legislature, organizations composed of st udents enrolled in any
institution within The Oklahoma State System of Higher Educ ation or
organizations composed of students enrolled in a junior college or
community college, or administrative staffs of public bodies,
including, but not limited to, faculty meetings and athletic staff
meetings of institutions of higher education wh en those staffs are
not meeting with the public body, or entry -year assistance
committees. Furthermore, public body shall not include the
multidisciplinary teams provided for in Section 1 -9-102 of Title 10A
of the Oklahoma Statutes and subsection C of Sec tion 1-502.2 of
Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes or any school board meeting for
the sole purpose of considering recommendations of a
multidisciplinary team and deciding the placement of any child who
is the subject of the recommendations. Furthermore, p ublic body
shall not include meetings conducted by stewards designated by the
Oklahoma Horse Racing Commission pursuant to Section 203.4 of Title
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3A of the Oklahoma Statutes when the stewards are officiating at
races or otherwise enforcing rules of the Com mission. Furthermore,
public body shall not include the board of directors of a Federally
Qualified Health Center;
2. "Meeting" means the conduct of business of a public body by
a majority of its members be ing personally together or, as
authorized by Section 307.1 of this title, together pursuant to a
videoconference. Meeting shall not include informal gatherings of a
majority of the members of the public body when no business of the
public body is discusse d;
3. "Regularly scheduled meeting" means a meeting at which the
regular business of the public body is conducted;
4. "Special meeting" means any meeting of a public body other
than a regularly scheduled meeting or emergency meeting;
5. "Emergency meeting" means any meeting called for the purpose
of dealing with an emergency. For purposes of the Oklahoma Open
Meeting Act, an emergency is defined as a situation involving injury
to persons or injury and damage to public or personal property or
immediate financial loss when the time requirements for pub lic
notice of a special meeting would make such procedure impractical
and increase the likelihood of injury or damage or immediate
financial loss;
6. "Continued or reconvened meeting " means a meeting which i s
assembled for the purpose of finishing busines s appearing on an
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agenda of a previous meeting. For the purposes of the Oklahoma Open
Meeting Act, only matters on the agenda of the previous meeting at
which the announcement of the continuance is made may be discussed
at a continued or reconvened meetin g;
7. "Videoconference" means a conference among members of a
public body remote from one another who are linked by interactive
telecommunication devices or technology and/or technology permitting
both visual and auditory communication between and among m embers of
the public body and/or between and among members of the public body
and members of the public. During any videoconference, both the
visual and auditory communications functions shall attempt to be
utilized; and
8. "Teleconference" means a conference among members of a
public body remote from one another who are linked by
telecommunication devices and/or technology permitting auditory
communication between and among members of the public body and/or
between and among members of the public body an d members of the
public.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2022.
58-2-9372 MAH 01/10/22