Bill > PR26-0262

Introduced Session

July 1, 2025 To declare the existence of an emergency, due to congressional review, with respect to the need to amend the Open Meetings Act to clarify the definition of meeting, to provide for a public body’s ability to be briefed about potential terrorist or public health threats so long as no official action is taken, to exempt from the act meetings between the Council and the Mayor provided that no official action is taken at such meetings, and to provide that a meeting shall be deemed open to the public if the public body takes steps reasonably calculated to allow the public to view or hear the meeting while the meeting is taking place, or, if doing so is not technologically feasible, as soon thereafter as reasonably practicable.

Phil Mendelson (D)*, 

Resolution R26-0155, Effective from Jul 01, 2025 Published in DC Register Vol 72 and Page 007712 (on 07/11/2025)

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