Do you support this bill?

Assembly Bill A6464

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Authorizes public agencies to provide access to information that is about materials, processes or actions that could harm public health or safety, or the environment

download bill text pdf

Sponsored By

Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

Please enter your contact information

Home address is used to determine the senate district in which you reside. Your support or opposition to this bill is then shared immediately with the senator who represents you.

Optional services from the NY State Senate:

Create an account. An account allows you to officially support or oppose key legislation, sign petitions with a single click, and follow issues, committees, and bills that matter to you. When you create an account, you agree to this platform's terms of participation.

Include a custom message for your Senator? (Optional)

Enter a message to your senator. Many New Yorkers use this to share the reasoning behind their support or opposition to the bill. Others might share a personal anecdote about how the bill would affect them or people they care about.

Actions

co-Sponsors

multi-Sponsors

2015-A6464 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Public Officers Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง89, Pub Off L
Versions Introduced in 2013-2014 Legislative Session:
A5672

2015-A6464 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes public agencies to provide access to information that is about materials, processes or actions that could cause harm to the public health or safety, or the environment.

2015-A6464 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  6464

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 25, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, COLTON, COOK, PAULIN, GALEF, SCHI-
  MEL, ORTIZ -- Multi-Sponsored by  --  M.  of  A.  BRENNAN,  GOTTFRIED,
  LENTOL,  PERRY,  RIVERA, ROBINSON, TITONE -- read once and referred to
  the Committee on Governmental Operations

AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to access to public
  agency records that contain information about materials, processes  or
  actions  that  may  cause  harm to the public health or safety, or the
  environment

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

  Section  1. Section 89 of the public officers law is amended by adding
a new subdivision 10 to read as follows:
  10. UNLESS OTHERWISE PROHIBITED BY LAW, AN AGENCY MAY  PROVIDE  ACCESS
TO  RECORDS  DETERMINED  BY  SUCH  AGENCY  TO BE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST,
INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO RECORDS OR PORTIONS THEREOF  THAT  CONTAIN
INFORMATION ABOUT MATERIALS, PROCESSES OR ACTIONS THAT MAY CAUSE HARM TO
THE PUBLIC HEALTH OR SAFETY, OR THE ENVIRONMENT.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD10048-01-5

Comments

Open Legislation is a forum for New York State legislation. All comments are subject to review and community moderation is encouraged.

Comments deemed off-topic, commercial, campaign-related, self-promotional; or that contain profanity, hate or toxic speech; or that link to sites outside of the nysenate.gov domain are not permitted, and will not be published. Attempts to intimidate and silence contributors or deliberately deceive the public, including excessive or extraneous posting/posts, or coordinated activity, are prohibited and may result in the temporary or permanent banning of the user. Comment moderation is generally performed Monday through Friday. By contributing or voting you agree to the Terms of Participation and verify you are over 13.

Create an account. An account allows you to sign petitions with a single click, officially support or oppose key legislation, and follow issues, committees, and bills that matter to you. When you create an account, you agree to this platform's terms of participation.