NY State Senate Bill 2011-S2881

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Date of Action	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Jan 04, 2012	referred to finance
Apr 05, 2011	notice of committee consideration - requested
Feb 02, 2011	referred to finance

2011-S2881 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Finance
Law Section:: New York State Printing and Public Documents Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §12, NYS Print L; amd §103, St Tech L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2009-2010: S7805
2013-2014: S798

2011-S2881 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to agency reports; requires such reports to be posted on line; provides for a letter or notice to be sent to members of the legislature indicating the website address and the name of the person at such state agency to whom a legislator may request a printed copy of such report.

2011-S2881 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                BILL NUMBER:S2881

TITLE OF BILL:
An act
to amend the New York state printing and public documents law and
the state technology law, in
relation to agency reports

PURPOSE:
To eliminate excessive paperwork while ensuring that state
legislators and legislative staff have access, via the Internet, to
important state agency publications.

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1 -- Amends subdivision 4 of section 12 of the New York State
printing and public Documents Law. Establishes that when a report is
required to be created by a state agency, the agency must notify the
appropriate legislative offices that the document will be posted on
the New York State Agency Documents Website.

Section 2 -- Amends section 103 of the State Technology Law to create
the New York State Agency Documents website. This web-based database
will allow state legislators, legislative staff members, and the
public to have access to all reports that are required, by
legislation, to be created.

Section 3 -- Effective date.

JUSTIFICATION:
In 2005, the state Legislature passed and the Governor signed into law
the Reporting Requirement Reform Act. This act corrected some
significant deficiencies in the way reports by agencies are submitted
to the state Legislature. The Reporting Requirement Reform Act
simplified reporting requirements and at the same time eliminated
unnecessary reporting requirements. This bill seeks to build upon and
enhance the Reporting Requirement Reform Act by further eliminating
unneeded printed documents.
Under this bill, reporting requirements by state agencies will be
fulfilled by posting those reports on the Internet at the New York
State Agency Documents Website (which is established by section 2 of
this bill). This legislation, however, allows members of the State
Legislature who are still uncomfortable with the Internet to request
a printed copy of their desired report.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2010: S.7805/A.650-A
2008: A.10153B (Kavanagh) - Passed Assembly
2008: A.1193 (Aubertine)  - Governmental Operations
2007: A.1193 (Aubertine)  - Governmental Operations
2006: A.10084 (Aubertine) - Governmental Operations
2005: A.100B4 (Aubertine) - Governmental Operations

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
Unable to determine. However, New York State is likely to save some
amount due to reduced printing costs.


EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after it
shall have become a law.

2011-S2881 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  2881

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            February 2, 2011
                               ___________

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

AN ACT to amend the New York state printing and public documents law and
  the state technology law, in relation to agency reports

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1. Subdivision 4 of section 12 of the New York state printing
and public documents law, as added by chapter 524 of the laws  of  2005,
is amended to read as follows:
  4.  (a)  Whenever  state  law  requires a state agency to make, issue,
submit, deliver, distribute or forward a report to the "legislature"  or
to  "members of the legislature" or to "both houses of the legislature,"
or to any particular legislative officers or chairpersons of legislative
committees, subcommittees or commissions, the agency shall satisfy  such
requirement by [either]:
  (i) [making, issuing, submitting, delivering, distributing or forward-
ing  a  printed copy of the report to each member of the legislature, or
to the specified legislative officers or chairpersons, as the  case  may
be;  or]  MAKING  SUCH  DOCUMENT  AVAILABLE ON THE NEW YORK STATE AGENCY
DOCUMENTS WEBSITE, AS AUTHORIZED BY SUBDIVISION EIGHTEEN OF SECTION  ONE
HUNDRED  THREE  OF THE STATE TECHNOLOGY LAW, UNDER THE APPROPRIATE AGEN-
CY'S HEADING AND SENDING A PRINTED LETTER OR NOTICE TO  EACH  MEMBER  OF
THE  LEGISLATURE,  OR  TO  THE  SPECIFIED LEGISLATIVE OFFICERS OR CHAIR-
PERSONS, AS THE CASE MAY BE, INDICATING THE AVAILABILITY OF SUCH  REPORT
ON THIS WEBSITE; AND BY
  (ii)  making  such  document  available  on  its website and sending a
printed letter or notice to each member of the legislature,  or  to  the
specified  legislative  officers  or  chairpersons,  as the case may be,
indicating the availability of such report on the agency's website.
  (b) Such letter or notice shall  include  the  name  of  the  specific
report,  the specific web address at which the report can be accessed or

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD03222-01-1

S. 2881                             2

instructions on how to access the report from the agency's homepage, and
the name of the person at the state agency to whom  the  legislator  may
direct a request to obtain a printed copy of the report, free of charge,
if so desired.
  S  2.  Section  103 of the state technology law is amended by adding a
new subdivision 18 to read as follows:
  18. TO ESTABLISH, ADMINISTER AND MAINTAIN  A  NEW  YORK  STATE  AGENCY
DOCUMENTS  WEBSITE  WHICH WILL INCLUDE POSTINGS OF ALL REPORTS ISSUED BY
STATE AGENCIES, DEPARTMENTS, PUBLIC AUTHORITIES, PUBLIC  BENEFIT  CORPO-
RATIONS  OR ENTITIES WHENEVER STATE LAW REQUIRES A STATE AGENCY TO MAKE,
ISSUE, SUBMIT, DELIVER, DISTRIBUTE OR FORWARD A REPORT TO THE  "LEGISLA-
TURE"  OR  TO  "MEMBERS  OF  THE  LEGISLATURE" OR TO "BOTH HOUSES OF THE
LEGISLATURE", OR TO ANY PARTICULAR LEGISLATIVE OFFICERS OR  CHAIRPERSONS
OF LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEES, SUBCOMMITTEES OR COMMISSIONS. IT SHALL BE THE
RESPONSIBILITY  OF  THE NEW YORK STATE AGENCY DOCUMENTS WEBSITE TO SERVE
AS THE CENTRAL REPOSITORY FOR THE POSTING AND ARCHIVING OF ALL DOCUMENTS
PROVIDED TO THE LEGISLATURE AS REQUIRED BY STATE LAW.
  S 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
it shall have become a law.

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