Open meetings: advisory committees.

The Ralph M. Brown Act requires that all meetings of a legislative body, as defined, of a local agency be open and public and all persons be permitted to attend unless a closed session is authorized. In defining a legislative body for this purpose, the act excludes advisory committees composed solely of the members of the legislative body that are less than a quorum of the legislative body. This bill would limit this exclusion from the act to an advisory committee composed solely of the members of the legislative body that are less than a quorum of the legislative body and whose subject matter jurisdiction has cumulatively lasted for 2 years or less.