Bill Text: NY A03002 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires each industrial development agency to live stream and post video recordings of all open meetings and public hearings; requires each industrial development agency to post such recordings for a period of not less than five years.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-3)

Status: (Passed) 2019-08-27 - signed chap.185 [A03002 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A03002-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3002
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 28, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. SOLAGES, D'URSO, DICKENS, RAMOS, SIMON, BARRON,
          McDONOUGH, LAWRENCE, LAVINE, GALEF, BUCHWALD, ROZIC -- Multi-Sponsored
          by -- M. of A. COOK, EPSTEIN -- read once and referred to the  Commit-
          tee on Local Governments
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the general municipal law and the public authorities
          law, in relation to requiring each industrial  development  agency  to
          live  stream  all  open  meetings  and  public  hearings  and make the
          recordings of such meetings and hearings available on the  webpage  of
          the industrial development agency
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The general municipal  law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     2  section 857 to read as follows:
     3    §  857.  Video  recordings  of open meetings and public hearings.  The
     4  agency shall, to the extent practicable, stream all  open  meetings  and
     5  public hearings on its website in real-time. The agency shall post video
     6  recordings of all open meetings and public hearings on its website with-
     7  in  five business days of the meeting or hearing and shall maintain such
     8  recordings for a period of not less than five years.
     9    § 2. The public authorities law is amended by  adding  a  new  section
    10  1952-a to read as follows:
    11    §  1952-a. Video recordings of open meetings and public hearings.  The
    12  authority shall, to the extent practicable, stream all open meetings and
    13  public hearings on its website in real-time. The  authority  shall  post
    14  video recordings of all open meetings and public hearings on its website
    15  within  five  business days of the meeting or hearing and shall maintain
    16  such recordings for a period of not less than five years.
    17    § 3. The public authorities law is amended by  adding  a  new  section
    18  2305 to read as follows:
    19    §  2305.  Video  recordings of open meetings and public hearings.  The
    20  authority shall, to the extent practicable, stream all open meetings and
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  public hearings on its website in real-time. The  authority  shall  post
     2  video recordings of all open meetings and public hearings on its website
     3  within  five  business days of the meeting or hearing and shall maintain
     4  such recordings for a period of not less than five years.
     5    §  4. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
     6  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.