FILED ON: 11/29/2022

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 3145

Senate, December 1, 2022 -- Substituted as a new draft (Senator Creem) for the Senate Bill exempting the town of Brookline from in-person quorums (Senate, No. 2685).

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

 

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In the One Hundred and Ninety-Second General Court
(2021-2022)

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An Act exempting the town of Brookline from in-person quorums.

 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1. The town of Brookline shall be exempt from the provision of subsection (d) of section 20 of chapter 30A of the General Laws requiring that a quorum of a public body, including the chair, be present at an in-person meeting location in order for the attorney general to authorize remote participation by members of such public body pursuant to said subsection (d) of said section 20 of said chapter 30A.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.