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Assembly Bill A7355

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to the availability of agency records prior to or at an open meeting

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2021-A7355 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7306
Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Public Officers Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §103, Pub Off L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2023-2024: A2506
2025-2026: A522

2021-A7355 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the availability of agency records prior to or at an open meeting; removes the "to the extent practicable as determined by the agency or the department" limitation from the requirement that agencies and departments shall make records available.

2021-A7355 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7355
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 6, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by 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 the availability
   of agency records prior to or at an open meeting
 
   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,] prior to or at the meeting during which
 the records will be discussed. Copies of such records may be made avail-
 able 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,]  prior to the meeting. An agency may, but shall not be
 required to, expend additional moneys to  implement  the  provisions  of
 this subdivision.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11161-01-1

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