Bill Text: NY S07933 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the availability of subject matter lists of records in the possession of a state agency.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-08-08 - REFERRED TO RULES [S07933 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S07933-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7933
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    August 8, 2014
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       Introduced by Sen. MARCHIONE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
       AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to the availability
         of subject matter lists of records in the possession of a state agency
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 3 of section 87 of the  public
    2  officers  law, as amended by chapter 499 of the laws of 2008, is amended
    3  to read as follows:
    4    (c) a reasonably detailed  current  list  by  subject  matter  of  all
    5  records  in the possession of the agency, whether or not available under
    6  this article. Each agency shall update its subject matter list annually,
    7  and the date of the most recent update shall be conspicuously  indicated
    8  on  the  list.  Each state agency as defined in subdivision four of this
    9  section SHALL PROVIDE A COPY OF ITS CURRENT LIST  WITHOUT  CHARGE  TO  A
   10  PERSON WHO REQUESTS IT, AND SHALL TRANSMIT A COPY OF ITS CURRENT LIST TO
   11  THE  COMMITTEE  ON  OPEN  GOVERNMENT WITHIN THIRTY DAYS OF UPDATING SUCH
   12  LIST. EACH SUCH STATE AGENCY that maintains a  website  shall  post  its
   13  current  list  on  its  website [and such posting shall be linked to the
   14  website of the committee on open government. Any such agency  that  does
   15  not  maintain  a  website  shall  arrange to have its list posted on the
   16  website of the committee on open government]. IN ITS  ANNUAL  REPORT  TO
   17  THE GOVERNOR AND THE LEGISLATURE, THE COMMITTEE ON OPEN GOVERNMENT SHALL
   18  IDENTIFY  ANY  STATE  AGENCY THAT HAS NOT TRANSMITTED AN UPDATED SUBJECT
   19  MATTER LIST AS REQUIRED BY THIS PARAGRAPH.
   20    S 2. Notwithstanding the provisions of section one of  this  act,  the
   21  department  of  corrections  and  community  supervision  shall  not  be
   22  required to make copies of its current list of all  records  by  subject
   23  matter  available  to  inmates  without charge provided that one or more
   24  copies of such list is available to inmates without charge provided that
   25  one or more copies of such list is available to inmates  for  review  at
   26  every correctional facility inmate law library.
   27    S 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
   28  ing  the  date  on  which it shall have become a law; provided, however,
   29  that the committee on open government shall not be required to  identify
   30  any state agency that has not transmitted an updated subject matter list
   31  in its first annual report subsequent to such date.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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