Bill Text: NY A10983 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires certain documents to be made available for open meetings.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-11-06 - print number 10983a [A10983 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10983

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    September 9, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Paulin) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to  making  certain
          documents available for open meetings

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision (e) of section 103 of the public officers  law,
     2  as  added  by  chapter  603  of  the laws of 2011, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    (e) Agency records available to the public pursuant to article six  of
     5  this chapter, as well as any proposed resolution, law, rule, regulation,
     6  policy  or any amendment thereto, that is scheduled to be the subject of
     7  discussion by a public body during an open meeting shall be made  avail-
     8  able, upon request therefor, [to the extent practicable as determined by
     9  the  agency  or the department,] prior to or at the meeting during which
    10  the records will be discussed. Copies of such records may be made avail-
    11  able for a reasonable fee, determined in the  same  manner  as  provided
    12  therefor in article six of this chapter. If the agency in which a public
    13  body  functions  maintains a regularly and routinely updated website and
    14  utilizes a high speed internet connection, such records shall be  posted
    15  on the website [to the extent practicable as determined by the agency or
    16  the  department,]  prior to the meeting. An agency may, but shall not be
    17  required to, expend additional moneys to  implement  the  provisions  of
    18  this subdivision.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




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