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Assembly Bill A1621

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Requires that committee and floor votes be made available online and that session and committee meetings be webcast

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2017-A1621 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1748
Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Legislative Law
Laws Affected:
Add §54-b, Leg L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: S7487
2013-2014: A2097, S3046
2015-2016: A1887, S1909

2017-A1621 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires that committee and floor votes be made available online and that session and committee meetings be webcast; listing shall include correspondence from the governor relating to legislation.

2017-A1621 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1621
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 12, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Governmental Operations
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  legislative  law, in relation to requiring that
   committee and floor votes be made available online  and  that  session
   and committee meetings be live webcast and archived

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The legislative law is amended by adding a new section 54-b
 to read as follows:
   § 54-B. COMMITTEE AND FLOOR VOTES AND COMMITTEE MEETINGS TO BE  POSTED
 ONLINE.  1.  ALL  VOTES  TAKEN ON THE FLOOR OF THE SENATE OR ASSEMBLY OR
 VOTES TAKEN IN ANY COMMITTEE OF THE LEGISLATURE SHALL BE LISTED  ON  THE
 OFFICIAL  WEBSITE  OF  THE RESPECTIVE HOUSES WITHIN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS OF
 SUCH VOTE, TO THE EXTENT PRACTICABLE.   SUCH LISTING SHALL  INCLUDE  THE
 BILL  NUMBER,  DATE  OF  VOTE,  THE  SUMMARY OF THE LEGISLATION FROM THE
 LEGISLATIVE RETRIEVAL SYSTEM, WHETHER SUCH VOTE WAS ON THE FLOOR OR IN A
 COMMITTEE AND EACH MEMBER'S VOTE LISTED AS AYE, NAY, EXCUSED, ABSENT  OR
 ABSTAIN.  SUCH LISTING SHALL ALSO INCLUDE CORRESPONDENCE FROM THE GOVER-
 NOR  RELATING  TO LEGISLATION, SUCH AS MESSAGES OF NECESSITY AND VETO OR
 APPROVAL MEMORANDA.
   2. EVERY COMMITTEE MEETING AND HEARING OF THE  LEGISLATURE  AND  EVERY
 SESSION  SHALL BE LIVE WEBCAST AND ARCHIVED THROUGH THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE
 OF EACH RESPECTIVE HOUSE TO THE EXTENT PRACTICABLE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
 it shall have become a law; provided, however, that  the  obligation  to
 archive  webcasts  of  committee  meetings, hearings and sessions of the
 legislature as provided in section one of this act shall only  apply  to
 webcasts occurring on or after the effective date of this act.
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01508-01-7

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