Bill Text: NY A08564 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to state agency websites required to offer a mobile friendly form; requires mobile friendly forms for state agency websites created or modified with changes to form or function after the effective date of this act and prior to January 1, 2027, and for all state agency websites thereafter; defines terms.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2024-02-07 - signed chap.45 [A08564 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08564-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8564

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 9, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. OTIS -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the state technology law, in relation  to  state  agency
          websites required to offer a mobile friendly form

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

     1    Section 1. Section 210 of the state technology  law,  as  added  by  a
     2  chapter  of  the laws of 2023 amending the state technology law relating
     3  to state agency websites, as proposed in legislative  bills  numbers  S.
     4  5410  and  A.   6972, is renumbered section 103-c and amended to read as
     5  follows:
     6    § 103-c. State agency websites; mobile friendly  websites.  All  state
     7  agency websites, as defined in section two hundred two of this [article]
     8  chapter,  shall offer a mobile friendly form and shall be made available
     9  for all mobile devices that support such technology, provided that  such
    10  requirement shall only apply to websites created or modified with chang-
    11  es  to  form  or  function  after the effective date of this section and
    12  prior to January first, two thousand  twenty-seven,  and  to  all  state
    13  agency  websites thereafter.   For the purposes of this section, "mobile
    14  friendly" shall mean, with respect to a website, that  such  website  is
    15  configured  in such a way that such website may be navigated, viewed and
    16  accessed on a smartphone, tablet computer, or similar mobile device. For
    17  the purposes of this section, "changes to form or function"  shall  mean
    18  modifications  to  the  visual presentation, informational organization,
    19  website infrastructure, or user utility of the  website,  including  but
    20  not limited to:
    21    1.  redesigns  of  site  layout,  color  schemes,  graphics,  branding
    22  elements, or other aesthetic components; or
    23    2. integration of dynamic interfaces.
    24    § 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
    25  manner  as  a  chapter of the laws of 2023 amending the state technology
    26  law relating to state agency websites, as proposed in legislative  bills
    27  numbers S. 5410 and A. 6972, takes effect.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09848-02-4