Bill Text: NY A11032 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 11032 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires certain public records, and any proposed resolution, rule, regulation, policy or amendments thereto scheduled to be discussed by a public body at an open meeting be made available to the public at least 24 hours prior to such meetings.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-10-07 - referred to governmental operations [A11032 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A11032-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          11032

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     October 7, 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  requiring
          certain  records which are the subject of a discussion conducted at an
          open meeting be made available to  the  public  at  least  twenty-four
          hours prior thereto

          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, at least twenty-four hours  prior  to  [or
    10  at]  the  meeting  during which the records will be discussed. Copies of
    11  such records may be made available for a reasonable fee,  determined  in
    12  the  same manner as provided therefor in article six of this chapter. If
    13  the agency in which a public body functions maintains  a  regularly  and
    14  routinely updated website and utilizes a high speed internet connection,
    15  such records shall be posted on the website to the extent practicable as
    16  determined  by  the agency or the department, at least twenty-four hours
    17  prior to the meeting. An agency may,  but  shall  not  be  required  to,
    18  expend  additional  moneys  to implement the provisions of this subdivi-
    19  sion.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD17265-02-0