H-8056

   Amend House File 2363 as follows:
   1.  Page 1, line 2, by striking <subsection> and inserting <subsections>
   2.  Page 1, after line 8 by inserting: 
   <NEW SUBSECTION.  3B.  A member of a governmental body shall keep confidential all information relating to all discussions and action occurring at a closed session which relate to the specific reason announced as justification for the closed session.
   Sec. ___.  Section 21.6, subsection 1, Code 2016, is amended to read as follows:
   1.  The remedies provided by this section against state governmental bodies and members of governmental bodies shall be in addition to those provided by section 17A.19. Any aggrieved person, taxpayer to, or citizen of, the state of Iowa, or the attorney general or county attorney, may seek judicial enforcement of the requirements of this chapter. Suits to enforce this chapter shall be brought in the district court for the county in which the governmental body has its principal place of business.
   Sec. ___.  Section 21.6, Code 2016, is amended by adding the following new subsection:
   NEW SUBSECTION.  3A.  In addition to any other penalties provided for in this chapter, upon a finding by a preponderance of the evidence that a member of a governmental body has violated section 21.5, subsection 3B, a court shall assess the member damages in the amount of not more than one thousand dollars.>
   3.  Title page, line 1, after <attendance> by inserting <and confidentiality>
   4.  Title page, line 2, after <body> by inserting <and providing penalties>
   5.  By renumbering as necessary.

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MASCHER of Johnson