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(A) An online posting of an agenda shall be posted on the primary internet website home page
of a city, county, city and county, special district, school district, or political subdivision
established by the state that is accessible through a prominent, direct link to the current agenda.
The direct link to the agenda shall not be in a contextual menu; however, a link in addition to the
direct link to the agenda may be accessible through a contextual menu.

(B) An online posting of an agenda including, but not limited to, an agenda posted in an
integrated agenda management platform, shall be posted in an open format that meets all of the
following requirements:

(i) Retrievable, downloadable, indexable, and electronically searchable by commonly used
internet search applications.

(ii) Platform independent and machine readable.

(iii) Available to the public free of charge and without any restriction that would impede the
reuse or redistribution of the agenda.

(C) A legislative body of a city, county, city and county, special district, school district, or
political subdivision established by the state that has an internet website, and an integrated
agenda management platform shall not be required to comply with subparagraph (A) if all of the
following are met:

(i) A direct link to the integrated agenda management platform shall be posted on the primary
internet website home page of a city, county, city and county, special district, school district, or
political subdivision established by the state. The direct link to the integrated agenda
management platform shall not be in a contextual menu. When a person clicks on the direct link
to the integrated agenda management platform, the direct link shall take the person directly to an
internet website with the agendas of the legislative body of a city, county, city and county,
special district, school district, or political subdivision established by the state.

(ii) The integrated agenda management platform may contain the prior agendas of a legislative
body of a city, county, city and county, special district, school district, or political subdivision
established by the state for all meetings occurring on or after January 1, 2019.

(iii) The current agenda of the legislative body of a city, county, city and county, special district,
school district, or political subdivision established by the state shall be the first agenda available
at the top of the integrated agenda management platform.

(iv) All agendas posted in the integrated agenda management platform shall comply with the
requirements in clauses (i), (ii), and (iii) of subparagraph (B).

(D) For the purposes of this paragraph, both of the following definitions shall apply:

(i) “Integrated agenda management platform” means an internet website of a city, county, city
and county, special district, school district, or political subdivision established by the state
dedicated to providing the entirety of the agenda information for the legislative body of the city,

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