Bill Text: NY S07842 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Allows the public to photograph, videotape or otherwise electronically transcribe an image of records accessed through a foil request without charging a fee.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-12-28 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S07842 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S07842-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          7842

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 26, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  FELDER -- 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  allowing  the
          public to photograph records accessed through a FOIL request

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 87 of the public officers  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
     3    (c)  Each agency shall allow a person who has been granted access to a
     4  record to photograph, videotape or otherwise  electronically  transcribe
     5  an image of such record, without charging a fee for such transcription.
     6    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     7  have become a law.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14774-01-0
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