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Assembly Bill A5769

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Requires each state agency to submit statistical information to the committee on open government on requests for records from such state agency

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2015-A5769 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Public Officers Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง89, Pub Off L
Versions Introduced in 2017-2018 Legislative Session:
A2297

2015-A5769 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires each state agency to submit statistical information to the committee on open government on requests for records from such state agency.

2015-A5769 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  5769

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              March 4, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES, ZEBROWSKI, ENGLEBRIGHT, GALEF --
  read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations

AN ACT to amend the public officers  law,  in  relation  to  statistical
  information on requests for records from state agencies

  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. ON OR BEFORE THE FIRST DAY OF MARCH OF EACH YEAR, EACH STATE AGEN-
CY  SHALL SUBMIT THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION COVERING THE PRECEDING CALEN-
DAR YEAR TO THE COMMITTEE ON OPEN GOVERNMENT:
  (A) THE NUMBER OF REQUESTS FOR RECORDS RECEIVED BY THE AGENCY;
  (B) THE NUMBER OF SUCH REQUESTS THAT WERE (I)  GRANTED,  (II)  DENIED,
(III)  GRANTED IN PART AND DENIED IN PART, OR (IV) CONSTRUCTIVELY DENIED
BY VIRTUE OF A FAILURE TO RESPOND TO  A  REQUEST  WITHIN  THE  STATUTORY
TIME;
  (C)  THE NUMBER OF APPEALS OF SUCH DENIALS THAT RESULTED IN (I) GRANT-
ING ACCESS TO THE RECORDS SOUGHT, OR (II) A FINAL DENIAL OF  ACCESS,  OR
(III) CONSTRUCTIVE DENIAL BY VIRTUE OF A FAILURE TO RESPOND TO AN APPEAL
WITHIN THE STATUTORY TIME;
  (D)  THE  NUMBER OF REQUESTS FOR RECORDS THAT WERE GRANTED IN WHOLE OR
PART WITHIN TWENTY BUSINESS DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THE ACKNOWLEDGMENT  OF
RECEIPT OF THE REQUEST;
  (E)  THE  AVERAGE  NUMBER  AND MEDIAN NUMBER OF DAYS FOR THE AGENCY TO
RESPOND TO REQUESTS FOR RECORDS BY (I) GRANTING THE REQUEST IN WHOLE  OR
PART, OR (II) DENYING THE REQUEST;
  (F) THE TOTAL, AVERAGE AND LARGEST SINGLE AMOUNT OF FEES COLLECTED FOR
PROVIDING RECORDS; AND
  (G) ANY OTHER INFORMATION REQUIRED BY THE COMMITTEE.
  THE COMMITTEE AND EACH STATE AGENCY SHALL MAKE SUCH INFORMATION AVAIL-
ABLE  TO  THE PUBLIC INCLUDING BY POSTING THE MOST RECENT INFORMATION ON

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD09751-01-5

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