Bill Text: NY A07000 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 7000

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires certain meetings between the governor, the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly relating to the state budget to be open to the general public; to provide an opportunity for the public to attend, listen to, and observe such meetings; and to broadcast and maintain records of such meetings on each party's website.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 19-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to governmental operations [A07000 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A07000-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          7000

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 10, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  HAWLEY,  TAGUE,  MANKTELOW, BENDETT, FRIEND,
          BYRNES, MORINELLO, JENSEN, SMULLEN, DeSTEFANO, ANGELINO, MAHER, DiPIE-
          TRO, E. BROWN -- read once and referred to the  Committee  on  Govern-
          mental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to requiring public
          access to state budget discussions

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

     1    Section 1. The public officers law is amended by adding a new  section
     2  103-b to read as follows:
     3    §  103-b. Public access to state budget discussions.  1. Notwithstand-
     4  ing the provisions of this article, or any other law  to  the  contrary,
     5  every meeting of the governor, the temporary president of the senate and
     6  the  speaker  of the assembly arranged to discuss, negotiate, or debate,
     7  in part or in its entirety, the provisions of the state budget, shall be
     8  open to the general public.
     9    2. The host of the meetings under this section shall provide an oppor-
    10  tunity for the public to attend, listen and observe the meetings  in  at
    11  least  one physical location at which a member participates and shall be
    12  open to being photographed, broadcast, webcast,  or  otherwise  recorded
    13  and/or transmitted by audio or video means.
    14    3.  Meetings  under  this section shall, to the extent practicable, be
    15  broadcast to the public and maintained as records by the office  of  the
    16  governor  and each house of the legislature and streamed on the websites
    17  of the governor, the senate and the assembly in real-time and posted  on
    18  such websites within and for a reasonable time after the meeting.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11062-01-3