Bill Text: NY A02157 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Requires state agency websites to be mobile friendly.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-5)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-05-31 - REFERRED TO INTERNET AND TECHNOLOGY [A02157 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A02157-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         2157--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 14, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. FERNANDEZ, VANEL, SOLAGES, WILLIAMS, EPSTEIN,
          DICKENS, HYNDMAN, NORRIS, ROZIC, COLTON, ENGLEBRIGHT, GRIFFIN, ABINAN-
          TI, STECK, REILLY, SMULLEN, DeSTEFANO -- Multi-Sponsored by --  M.  of
          A.  DAVILA,  MIKULIN,  SIMON,  THIELE -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Governmental Operations -- recommitted to  the  Committee
          on  Governmental Operations in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2
          -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted  as  amended
          and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend the state technology law, in relation to state agency
          websites

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The state technology law is amended by adding a new section
     2  210 to read as follows:
     3    §  210.  State  agency  websites;  mobile friendly websites. All state
     4  agency websites, as defined in section two hundred two of this  article,
     5  shall  offer  a mobile friendly form and shall be made available for all
     6  mobile devices that support such technology.  For the purposes  of  this
     7  section,  "mobile  friendly" shall mean, with respect to a website, that
     8  such website is configured in such a way that such website may be  navi-
     9  gated,  viewed and accessed on a smartphone, tablet computer, or similar
    10  mobile device.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become  a
    12  law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05422-03-2
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