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