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