Freedom of Information Request Form

Thank you for your interest in the New York State Senate's work.

The New York State Senate proactively publishes much of the Chamber's legislative records on Open Legislation and Open Data. For Committee documents, you may also contact the Committee chair.

Please fill out the following form to complete your request for information. Note that requests for documents that do not exist in electronic format must be answered with hard copies which have a $0.25 per page fee.

Requests should be limited to New York State Senate information. Visitors seeking New York State Assembly information should visit the NY Assembly Information Request Page.

The Rules and Regulations relating to the public inspection and/or copying of certain legislative records have been adopted by the Temporary President of the Senate pursuant to Article 6 of the Public Officers Law, known as the Freedom of Information Law, and Rule XV of the Rules of the Senate. They are available for download in pdf format.

Frequently requested documents

Frequently-requested documents, and faster alternatives to FOIL.

Bills, Bill Data & Resolutions

Records	Available Through
Bills and amendments	Open Legislation
Fiscal notes	FOIL form
Introducers’ bill memoranda	Open Legislation
Resolutions and amendments	Open Legislation
Index Records	FOIL form

Messages

Records	Available Through
Messages from Governor	FOIL form
Messages from Assembly	FOIL form
Home Rule Messages	FOIL form
Local Fiscal Impact Notes	FOIL form
Notifications re agency rules	FOIL form

Sessions & Committee Meetings

Records	Available Through
Transcripts or minutes of public sessions	Open Legislation
Journal records of public sessions including attendance and voting records	Open Legislation
Transcripts or minutes of meetings and hearings of committees and subcommittees	FOIL form
Attendance and voting records of standing committees	Open Legislation

Manuals and Reports

Records	Available Through
Administrative staff manuals and instructions	FOIL form
Reports and opinions to the Legislature	FOIL form
Reports, recommendations and opinions of committees, subcommittees or commissions, including minority or dissenting reports	FOIL form

Personnel Records

Records	Available Through
Names, public office addresses, titles and salaries of officers and employees	Open Data

Miscellaneous

Records	Available Through
Travel vouchers, standard vouchers, contracts and leases	FOIL form
Internal or external audits and statistical or factual tabulations re material otherwise available for public inspection and copying	FOIL form
Any other files, records, papers or documents required by law to be made available for public inspection and copying	FOIL form

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Emailed to the address above as electronic files, if available in such form

Put on CD as electronic files, if available in such form

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In person at the Journal Clerk"s Offices in the Capital

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