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(ia) The person has been issued a protective court order, including, but not limited to, a
domestic violence restraining order.

(ib) The person is participating in a program that has to remain confidential, including,
but not limited to, an independent living program.

(V) The person provides childcare or caregiving to a child, parent, grandparent,
grandchild, sibling, spouse, or domestic partner that requires them to participate remotely. For
purposes of this subclause, “child,” “parent,” “grandparent,” “grandchild,” and “sibling” have the
same meaning as those terms are defined in Section 12945.2.

(4) An eligible legislative body that holds a meeting pursuant to this subdivision shall do the
following, as applicable:

(A) If the meeting is during regular business hours of the offices of the board of trustees of the
community college district, the eligible legislative body shall provide a publicly accessible
physical location from which the public may attend or comment, which shall be the offices of the
board of trustees of the community college district, unless the eligible legislative body identifies
an alternative location.

(B) If the meeting is outside regular business hours, the eligible legislative body shall make
reasonable efforts to accommodate any member of the public that requests an accommodation to
participate in the meeting. For the purposes of this subparagraph, “accommodation” means
providing a publicly accessible physical location for the member of the public to participate
from, providing access to technology necessary to participate in the meeting, or identifying
locations or resources available that could provide the member of the public with an opportunity
to participate in the meeting.

(c) The legislative body shall comply with all other requirements of Section 54953.

(d) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2026, and as of that date is repealed.

54954. Rules for conduct of business; time and place of meetings

(a) Each legislative body of a local agency, except for advisory committees or standing
committees, shall provide, by ordinance, resolution, bylaws, or by whatever other rule is required
for the conduct of business by that body, the time and place for holding regular meetings.
Meetings of advisory committees or standing committees, for which an agenda is posted at least
72 hours in advance of the meeting pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 54954.2, shall be
considered for purposes of this chapter as regular meetings of the legislative body.

(b) Regular and special meetings of the legislative body shall be held within the boundaries of
the territory over which the local agency exercises jurisdiction, except to do any of the following:

(1) Comply with state or federal law or court order or attend a judicial or administrative
proceeding to which the local agency is a party.

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