General Assembly; television coverage of legislative sessions. (HJ757)

Introduced By

Del. Chuck Caputo (D-Oak Hill)

Progress

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 Introduced
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 Passed Committee
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 Passed House
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 Passed Senate
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 Signed by Governor
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 Became Law

Description

General Assembly; television coverage of legislative sessions. Expresses the sense of the General Assembly that television coverage of the sessions of the House of Delegates and the Senate should be provided to public and private broadcasting interests for transmission to the citizens of the Commonwealth. View Full Text »

Outcome

Bill Has Failed
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Comments

PM writes:

People opposed to open government I guess would prefer we live under totalitarian rule.

Kudos for Caputo for trying to improve this situation

Posted 64 months ago.
Bubberella writes:

I don't think that unbroadcast sessions = totalitarianism. I'd like to see the sessions broadcast so that people would have a better idea of how the legislature works (or doesn't as the case may be). But to really see the action, you'd have to broadcast committee and subcommittee meetings.

All of these are open to the public, but there's scant space for the "public" in some of the meeting rooms. What generally happens is long stretches of tedium interspersed with brief moments of debate. I think it would be great to broadcast the brief moments of debate but I doubt that most people would want to sit through hours of dullness to get to those parts.

Posted 64 months ago.