The Seattle City Council Monday approved changes to its rules about when it can ban citizens from council meetings, but only after a few significant amendments from Council Member Nick Licata that narrowed their scope.

This came up last week when the council considered (and postponed a vote on) changes to its rules that would have increased the number of days people can be barred from council meetings for continual disruptions. The original changes would also have applied the rules to any disruptions before and after council meetings.

Licata’s amendments today did away with that change—regulating what happens before council meetings “exceeds what our intent is,” he said—and decreased the number of days someone can be barred for a second offense from 90 to 60 days.

Licata also reined in the definition of disruption in Burgess’s bill. Originally, it was broadly defined as anything that “intentionally disrupts, disturbs, or otherwise impedes attendance or participation” at a council meeting. Licata argued that determining that one person’s behavior affects another’s participation would mean the government could be judging the content of someone’s disruption. And that’s off-limits for curbing free speech.

“The current language… could be interpreted to apply to situations where the speaker makes offensive or strongly worded comments—or, for instance, does a Nazi salute—and thus disturbs another to not want to participate in the meeting. That’s content,” Licata said at a council briefing Monday. (At the start of that very meeting, council gadfly Alex Tsimerman stood in the front row of council chambers giving the council a silent Nazi salute.)

Council Member Kshama Sawant was the only no vote on the rule change, echoing her concerns from last week that future councils could use the rules to unfairly target protesters.

“I don’t see what crisis this resolution is aimed at,” she said.