Senate Bill S457

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to witness testimony before legislative committees via videoconferencing

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Investigations And Government Operations Committee


  • Introduced
    • 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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2023-S457 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Investigations And Government Operations
Law Section:
Legislative Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §60, Leg L; amd §103, Pub Off L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
S7332

2023-S457 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to witness testimony before legislative committees via videoconferencing.

2023-S457 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S457 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    457
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 4, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  MAY  --  read  twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
   ment Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the legislative law and  the  public  officers  law,  in
   relation to witness testimony before legislative committees via video-
   conferencing
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 60 of the legislative law, as  amended  by  chapter
 416 of the laws of 1954, is amended to read as follows:
   § 60. Testimony   before  legislative  committees.  1.  A  legislative
 committee may require the attendance of witnesses in this state whom the
 committee may wish to examine, or may issue a commission for  the  exam-
 ination  of  witnesses  who are out of the state or unable to attend the
 committee or excused from attendance, which commission  if  directed  by
 the  house  or  legislature  by  which the committee is appointed may be
 executed during the recess of the legislature. A  commission  issued  as
 provided  by  this  section  shall  be in the form used in the courts of
 record of this state and shall be executed in like manner. Unless other-
 wise instructed by the committee appointing them the commissioners shall
 examine privately every witness attending before them and shall not make
 public the particulars of such examination. No committee of either house
 or a joint committee of both houses shall have the power to take  testi-
 mony  at a private hearing or at a public hearing unless at least two of
 its members are present at such hearing.
   2. UPON A REQUEST FOR REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION BY A WITNESS, A  LEGIS-
 LATIVE  COMMITTEE  MAY  GRANT  SUCH WITNESS PERMISSION TO TESTIFY BEFORE
 SUCH LEGISLATIVE  COMMITTEE  VIA  VIDEOCONFERENCING.  SUCH  REQUEST  FOR
 REASONABLE  ACCOMMODATION  SHALL NOT BE APPROVED UNLESS SUCH WITNESS HAS
 DEMONSTRATED, TO THE SATISFACTION  OF  SUCH  LEGISLATIVE  COMMITTEE,  AN
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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