Bill Text: NY S07157 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires state authorities to conduct open meetings and provide an internet broadcast of its meetings, where practicable.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2016-09-09 - SIGNED CHAP.319 [S07157 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S07157-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7157
                    IN SENATE
                                     March 31, 2016
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        Introduced by Sen. ESPAILLAT -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
          ment Operations
        AN  ACT  to amend the public officers law, in relation to requiring open
          meetings and the internet broadcast of open  meetings  of  each  state
          authority, where practicable
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision (f) of section 103 of the public officers  law,
     2  as  added  by  chapter  519  of  the laws of 2015, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    (f) Open meetings of an agency or authority shall be,  to  the  extent
     5  practicable  and  within  available  funds,  broadcast to the public and
     6  maintained as records of the agency  or  authority.  If  the  agency  or
     7  authority  maintains  a  website  and  utilizes  a  high  speed internet
     8  connection, such open meeting shall be, to the  extent  practicable  and
     9  within available funds, streamed on such website in real-time, and post-
    10  ed  on  such website within and for a reasonable time after the meeting.
    11  For the purposes of this subdivision, the term "agency" shall mean  only
    12  a  state  department, board, bureau, division, council or office and any
    13  public corporation the majority of whose members are  appointed  by  the
    14  governor.  For  purposes of this subdivision, the term "authority" shall
    15  mean a public authority or public  benefit  corporation  created  by  or
    16  existing under any state law, at least one of whose members is appointed
    17  by  the governor (including any subsidiaries of such public authority or
    18  public benefit corporation), other than an interstate  or  international
    19  authority or public benefit corporation.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    21  it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01911-08-6