BILL REQ. #: Z-0661.4
State of Washington | 62nd Legislature | 2012 Regular Session |
Read first time 01/11/12. Referred to Committee on Government Operations, Tribal Relations & Elections.
AN ACT Relating to exempting video and audio recordings of closed executive session meetings from public inspection and copying; and adding a new section to chapter 42.56 RCW.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1 A new section is added to chapter 42.56 RCW
to read as follows:
Video and audio recordings of any portion of an executive session
from which the public is excluded pursuant to RCW 42.30.110 are exempt
from public disclosure under this chapter. A majority of the
statutorily or otherwise legally authorized, voting positions of the
governing body of the public agency may waive this exemption for any
portion of a recording not made confidential by some other law without
waiving this exemption for other recordings.