Bill Text: NY A02297 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires each state agency to submit statistical information to the committee on open government on requests for records from such state agency.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to governmental operations [A02297 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A02297-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2297
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 17, 2017
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        Introduced  by M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES, ZEBROWSKI, ENGLEBRIGHT, GALEF --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
        AN ACT to amend the public officers  law,  in  relation  to  statistical
          information on requests for records from state agencies
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 89 of the public officers law is amended by  adding
     2  a new subdivision 10 to read as follows:
     3    10. On or before the first day of March of each year, each state agen-
     4  cy  shall submit the following information covering the preceding calen-
     5  dar year to the committee on open government:
     6    (a) the number of requests for records received by the agency;
     7    (b) the number of such requests that were (i)  granted,  (ii)  denied,
     8  (iii)  granted in part and denied in part, or (iv) constructively denied
     9  by virtue of a failure to respond to  a  request  within  the  statutory
    10  time;
    11    (c)  the number of appeals of such denials that resulted in (i) grant-
    12  ing access to the records sought, or (ii) a final denial of  access,  or
    13  (iii) constructive denial by virtue of a failure to respond to an appeal
    14  within the statutory time;
    15    (d)  the  number of requests for records that were granted in whole or
    16  part within twenty business days from the date of the acknowledgment  of
    17  receipt of the request;
    18    (e)  the  average  number  and median number of days for the agency to
    19  respond to requests for records by (i) granting the request in whole  or
    20  part, or (ii) denying the request;
    21    (f) the total, average and largest single amount of fees collected for
    22  providing records; and
    23    (g) any other information required by the committee.
    24    The committee and each state agency shall make such information avail-
    25  able  to  the public including by posting the most recent information on
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  its websites. For the purposes of this subdivision, "state agency" shall
     2  have the same meaning as in subdivision five of this section.
     3    §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
     4  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.