Senate Bill S8021

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to state agency websites required to offer a mobile friendly form

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Current Bill Status - On Floor Calendar

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-S8021 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8564
Law Section:
State Technology Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §210, St Tech L (as proposed in S.5410 & A.6972)

2023-S8021 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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.

2023-S8021 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S8021 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8021
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              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:

   Section  1.  Section  210  of  the state technology law, as added by a
 chapter of the laws of 2023 amending the state technology  law  relating
 to  state  agency  websites, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.
 5410 and A.  6972, is renumbered section 103-c and amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   §  103-c.  State  agency websites; mobile friendly websites. All state
 agency websites, as defined in section two hundred two of this [article]
 CHAPTER, shall offer a mobile friendly form and shall be made  available
 for  all mobile devices that support such technology, PROVIDED THAT SUCH
 REQUIREMENT SHALL ONLY APPLY TO WEBSITES CREATED OR MODIFIED WITH CHANG-
 ES TO FORM OR FUNCTION AFTER THE EFFECTIVE  DATE  OF  THIS  SECTION  AND
 PRIOR  TO  JANUARY  FIRST,  TWO  THOUSAND TWENTY-SEVEN, AND TO ALL STATE
 AGENCY WEBSITES THEREAFTER.  For the purposes of this  section,  "mobile
 friendly"  shall  mean,  with respect to a website, that such website is
 configured in such a way that such website may be navigated, viewed  and
 accessed on a smartphone, tablet computer, or similar mobile device. FOR
 THE  PURPOSES  OF THIS SECTION, "CHANGES TO FORM OR FUNCTION" SHALL MEAN
 MODIFICATIONS TO THE VISUAL  PRESENTATION,  INFORMATIONAL  ORGANIZATION,
 WEBSITE  INFRASTRUCTURE,  OR  USER UTILITY OF THE WEBSITE, INCLUDING BUT
 NOT LIMITED TO:
   1.  REDESIGNS  OF  SITE  LAYOUT,  COLOR  SCHEMES,  GRAPHICS,  BRANDING
 ELEMENTS, OR OTHER AESTHETIC COMPONENTS; OR
   2. INTEGRATION OF DYNAMIC INTERFACES.
   §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2023 amending  the  state  technology
 law  relating to state agency websites, as proposed in legislative bills
 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

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