Bill Text: NY S08021 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to state agency websites required to offer a mobile friendly form; requires mobile friendly forms for state agency websites created or modified with changes to form or function after the effective date of this act and prior to January 1, 2027, and for all state agency websites thereafter; defines terms.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-30 - SUBSTITUTED BY A8564 [S08021 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08021-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8021

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 5, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sen. FERNANDEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN  ACT  to  amend the state technology law, in relation to state agency
          websites required to offer a mobile friendly form

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  210  of  the state technology law, as added by a
     2  chapter of the laws of 2023 amending the state technology  law  relating
     3  to  state  agency  websites, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.
     4  5410 and A.  6972, is renumbered section 103-c and amended  to  read  as
     5  follows:
     6    §  103-c.  State  agency websites; mobile friendly websites. All state
     7  agency websites, as defined in section two hundred two of this [article]
     8  chapter, shall offer a mobile friendly form and shall be made  available
     9  for  all mobile devices that support such technology, provided that such
    10  requirement shall only apply to websites created or modified with chang-
    11  es to form or function after the effective  date  of  this  section  and
    12  prior  to  January  first,  two  thousand twenty-seven, and to all state
    13  agency websites thereafter.  For the purposes of this  section,  "mobile
    14  friendly"  shall  mean,  with respect to a website, that such website is
    15  configured in such a way that such website may be navigated, viewed  and
    16  accessed on a smartphone, tablet computer, or similar mobile device. For
    17  the  purposes  of this section, "changes to form or function" shall mean
    18  modifications to the visual  presentation,  informational  organization,
    19  website  infrastructure,  or  user utility of the website, including but
    20  not limited to:
    21    1.  redesigns  of  site  layout,  color  schemes,  graphics,  branding
    22  elements, or other aesthetic components; or
    23    2. integration of dynamic interfaces.
    24    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
    25  manner as a chapter of the laws of 2023 amending  the  state  technology
    26  law  relating to state agency websites, as proposed in legislative bills
    27  numbers S. 5410 and A. 6972, takes effect.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09848-02-4