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Assembly Bill A11032

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to requiring records subject to discussion at an open meeting be made available at least 24 hours prior to such meeting

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2019-A11032 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Public Officers Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §103, Pub Off L

2019-A11032 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires certain public records, and any proposed resolution, rule, regulation, policy or amendments thereto scheduled to be discussed by a public body at an open meeting be made available to the public at least 24 hours prior to such meetings.

2019-A11032 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   11032
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              October 7, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Paulin) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the  public  officers  law,  in  relation  to  requiring
   certain  records which are the subject of a discussion conducted at an
   open meeting be made available to  the  public  at  least  twenty-four
   hours prior thereto

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision (e) of section 103 of the public officers  law,
 as  added  by  chapter  603  of  the laws of 2011, is amended to read as
 follows:
   (e) Agency records available to the public pursuant to article six  of
 this chapter, as well as any proposed resolution, law, rule, regulation,
 policy  or any amendment thereto, that is scheduled to be the subject of
 discussion by a public body during an open meeting shall be made  avail-
 able,  upon request therefor, to the extent practicable as determined by
 the agency or the department, AT LEAST TWENTY-FOUR HOURS  prior  to  [or
 at]  the  meeting  during which the records will be discussed. Copies of
 such records may be made available for a reasonable fee,  determined  in
 the  same manner as provided therefor in article six of this chapter. If
 the agency in which a public body functions maintains  a  regularly  and
 routinely updated website and utilizes a high speed internet connection,
 such records shall be posted on the website to the extent practicable as
 determined  by  the agency or the department, AT LEAST TWENTY-FOUR HOURS
 prior to the meeting. An agency may,  but  shall  not  be  required  to,
 expend  additional  moneys  to implement the provisions of this subdivi-
 sion.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD17265-02-0

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