NY State Senate Bill 2019-S7164

Senate Bill S7164

Signed By Governor

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Directs the office of information technology services to conduct a study on the use of legal material in an electronic format and access to such legal materials

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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
Delivered to Governor
Signed By Governor

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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Feb 03, 2020	signed chap.15
Jan 30, 2020	delivered to governor
Jan 28, 2020	returned to senate passed assembly ordered to third reading cal.344 substituted for a8989
Jan 22, 2020	referred to governmental operations delivered to assembly passed senate
Jan 13, 2020	ordered to third reading cal.88
Jan 10, 2020	referred to rules

Votes

- Jan 22, 2020 - Floor Vote
  S7164
  
  60
  
  Aye
  
  1
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  1
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Floor Vote: Jan 22, 2020
      
      aye (60)
      
      Addabbo Jr.
      
      Amedore
      
      Bailey
      
      Benjamin
      
      Biaggi
      
      Borrello
      
      Boyle
      
      Breslin
      
      Brooks
      
      Carlucci
      
      Comrie
      
      Flanagan
      
      Funke
      
      Gallivan
      
      Gaughran
      
      Gianaris
      
      Gounardes
      
      Griffo
      
      Harckham
      
      Helming
      
      Hoylman-Sigal
      
      Jackson
      
      Jacobs
      
      Jordan
      
      Kaminsky
      
      Kaplan
      
      Kavanagh
      
      Kennedy
      
      Krueger
      
      LaValle
      
      Lanza
      
      Little
      
      Liu
      
      Martinez
      
      May
      
      Mayer
      
      Metzger
      
      Montgomery
      
      Myrie
      
      O'Mara
      
      Ortt
      
      Parker
      
      Persaud
      
      Ramos
      
      Ranzenhofer
      
      Ritchie
      
      Rivera
      
      Robach
      
      Salazar
      
      Sanders Jr.
      
      Savino
      
      Sepúlveda
      
      Serino
      
      Serrano
      
      Seward
      
      Skoufis
      
      Stavisky
      
      Stewart-Cousins
      
      Tedisco
      
      Thomas
      
      nay (1)
      
      Akshar
      
      excused (1)
      
      Felder
  Jan 13, 2020 - Rules Committee Vote
  S7164
  
  18
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  1
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Rules Committee Vote: Jan 13, 2020
      
      aye (18)
      
      Benjamin
      
      Breslin
      
      Comrie
      
      Flanagan
      
      Gianaris
      
      Griffo
      
      Hoylman-Sigal
      
      Kennedy
      
      Krueger
      
      LaValle
      
      Little
      
      Liu
      
      Martinez
      
      Parker
      
      Robach
      
      Savino
      
      Seward
      
      Stewart-Cousins
      
      aye wr (1)
      
      Lanza

2019-S7164 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A8989
Law Section:: State Technology
Laws Affected:: Amd §1, Chap of 2019 (as proposed in S.6030 & A.382)

2019-S7164 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the office of information technology services to conduct a study on the use of legal material in an electronic format that guarantees the authenticity of and access to such legal materials.

2019-S7164 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S7164

SPONSOR: MAYER
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend a chapter of the laws of 2019 directing the department
of state to conduct a study on the use of legal material in an electron-
ic format and access to such legal materials, as proposed in legislative
bills numbers S.6030 and A.382, in relation to the implementation of
such study

 
PURPOSE:

This is a chapter amendment that makes changes to provisions of L.2019,
c.575.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

This legislation amends the underlying chapter by changing the agency in
charge of conducting a study of the methods and technologies used for
the authentication, use, preservation, and security, of electronic

versions of legal documents. The legislation passed gave the Department
of State responsibility over this study and this proposal would change
that to make the Office of Information Technologies responsible for the
study.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Pursuant to approval memo 24 of 2019, the Executive expressed concerns
about having the Department of State conduct this study even though it
lacks the underlying expertise on these subjects and instead requested
that the Office of Information Technology Services be placed in charge.
This legislation is a negotiated change to the underlying chapter that
addresses those concerns.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

Chapter amendment to Chapter 575 of the Laws of 2019.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take chapter of the laws study on the use of legal mate-
rials, as takes effect.effect on the same date and in the same manner as
a of 2019 directing the department of state to conduct a legal material
in an electronic format and access to such proposed in legislative bills
numbers S.6030 and A.382, takes effect.

2019-S7164 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7164
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 10, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  MAYER  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend a chapter of the laws of 2019 directing  the  department
   of  state  to conduct a study on the use of legal material in an elec-
   tronic format and access to  such  legal  materials,  as  proposed  in
   legislative  bills numbers S.6030 and A.382, in relation to the imple-
   mentation of such study
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  1 of a chapter of the laws of 2019 directing the
 department of state to conduct a study on the use of legal  material  in
 an  electronic format and access to such legal materials, as proposed in
 legislative bills numbers S.6030  and  A.382,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   Section  1.  1.  (a)  The  [department of state] OFFICE OF INFORMATION
 TECHNOLOGY SERVICES, in consultation with any entity that the [secretary
 of state] DIRECTOR OF THE  OFFICE  OF  INFORMATION  TECHNOLOGY  SERVICES
 deems appropriate, shall conduct a study on the use of legal material in
 an  electronic  format that guarantees the authenticity of and access to
 such legal materials of the state of New York. For the purposes of  this
 act,  "legal material" shall mean, whether or not in effect: the consti-
 tution of the state of New York; the laws of the state of New York;  any
 state  agency rule, regulation or decision that has or had the effect of
 law; material published in the New York register; and the New York  code
 of rules and regulations.
   (b) The study shall include, but not be limited to:
   i.  standards regarding the use, authentication, preservation, securi-
 ty, and public access of legal material,  and  the  fiscal  implications
 thereof;
   ii. the needs of users of legal material in an electronic format;
   iii.  views  of  stakeholders  pertaining  to the authentication, use,
 preservation, and security of legal materials in an electronic format;

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01821-02-0

 S. 7164                             2
 
   iv. methods and technologies used for the authentication, use, preser-
 vation and security of legal material, technology used by the state  and
 other states to disseminate legal material; and
   v.  current  practices of the state of New York with regard to session
 laws, the code of statutes, the register, administrative code, and court
 opinions in both electronic and non-electronic format.
   2. On or before November 1, 2020, the [department of state] OFFICE  OF
 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES shall submit such study to the governor,
 the  temporary  president  of the senate and the speaker of the assembly
 and shall publicly post such study on the [department of state's] OFFICE
 OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES' website.
   3. The [department of state] OFFICE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES
 may request, and is authorized to  receive,  any  information  from  any
 state  agency  that  is  relevant and material to the completion of such
 study. Such information received by the [department of state] OFFICE  OF
 INFORMATION  TECHNOLOGY  SERVICES  shall be subject to the same require-
 ments for confidentiality and limitations on use, if any, as are  appli-
 cable to such state agency's use of such information.
   §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
 manner as a chapter of the laws of  2019  directing  the  department  of
 state  to  conduct a study on the use of legal material in an electronic
 format and access to such legal materials, as  proposed  in  legislative
 bills numbers S.6030 and A.382, takes effect.

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