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Mar 04, 2015 |
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Assembly Bill A5769
2015-2016 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
PEOPLES-STOKE
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
co-Sponsors
Kenneth Zebrowski
Steven Englebright
Sandy Galef
2015-A5769 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Assembly Governmental Operations
- Law Section:
- Public Officers Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §89, Pub Off L
- Versions Introduced in 2017-2018 Legislative Session:
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A2297
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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