NY State Senate Bill 2025-S4693

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

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Feb 11, 2025	referred to investigations and government operations

2025-S4693 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A3438
Current Committee:: Senate Investigations And Government Operations
Law Section:: Taxation
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:: S6562, A9139

2025-S4693 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the "taxpayer access to publicly funded research act"; defines terms; requires each agency that provides funding for direct research shall develop a public access policy.

2025-S4693 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S4693

SPONSOR: CLEARE
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to establish the taxpayer access to publicly funded research act

 
PURPOSE:

The purpose of this legislation is to allow for public access to any
original research that is the result of publicly funded grants from
state agencies. This law, known as the taxpayer access to publicly fund-
ed research act, shall in part require, at a minimum, a final copy of
the research is delivered to the agency from when funding was provided
and allow for free public access.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 provides the short title of the bill.

Section 2 provides the definitions of "agency," "direct research," and
"policy," as used in the act. The section further provides that each

agency providing funding for direct research shall develop a public
access policy, and provides minimum requirements for such policy.

Section 3 provides the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

New York State agencies distribute millions of dollars each year to fund
original research projects. This research helps drive scientific,
cultural, and technological innovation. However, this work is often
inaccessible to widespread public access.

This legislation requires individual agencies responsible for funding
such research provide free public access to peer-reviewed and published
research funded by the agency Research authors must submit, at minimum,
their final published work to the funding agency, which the agency must
make available to the public within twelve months after receipt.

Our taxpayers should not have to face barriers to access final peer-re-
viewed published research that is a product of their tax dollars. This
legislation ensures taxpayer access at no cost.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New bill.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become law.
Effective immediately, the addition, amendment, and/or repeal of any
rule or regulation for the implementation of this act on its effective
date is authorized to be made on or before such date.

2025-S4693 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4693
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 11, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
   ment Operations
 
 AN ACT to establish the taxpayer access to publicly funded research act
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
 the "taxpayer access to publicly funded research act".
   § 2. (a) As used in this act, the terms:
   (i) "Agency" shall mean any executive branch  agency,  including,  but
 not limited to any agency, commission or authority;
   (ii)  "Direct  research"  shall  mean research resulting directly from
 proscribed grants from state agency funding for the purpose of  specific
 research undertakings; and
   (iii)  "Policy" shall mean the public access policy established pursu-
 ant to subdivision (b) of this section.
   (b) Each agency that provides funding for direct research shall devel-
 op a public access policy that shall:
   (i) Include a requirement that electronic  versions  of  the  author's
 final  manuscripts  of  original research papers that have been accepted
 for publication in  peer-reviewed  journals  and  result  from  research
 supported  from  funding  by the state of New York, be submitted to such
 funding agency;
   (ii) Provide free online public access  to  such  final  peer-reviewed
 manuscripts  or  published versions as soon as practicable but not later
 than twelve months after publication in peer-reviewed journals;
   (iii) Produce an online bibliography of all research papers  that  are
 publicly  accessible  under  the  policy,  with each entry linked to the
 corresponding free online full text;
   (iv) Provide free access to the published research findings; and
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06697-01-5
 S. 4693                             2

 
   (v) Be developed in conjunction with any other agencies  that  provide
 funding  for  direct research or that underwrite the cost of facilities,
 equipment,  hardware,  information  resources,  personnel  or  otherwise
 fiscally support direct research.
   (c) Such policy shall exclude:
   (i)  Research  progress  reports presented at professional meetings or
 conferences;
   (ii) Laboratory notes, preliminary data analyses, notes of the author,
 phone logs or other information used to produce the final manuscript;
   (iii) Classified research, research resulting in works  that  generate
 revenue  or  royalties for the authors or patentable discoveries, to the
 extent necessary to comply with copyright or patent protections; and
   (iv) Authors who do not submit their work to a  peer-reviewed  journal
 or works that are rejected for publication in such journals.
   (d)(i)  Not  later  than December first of each year, the head of each
 agency shall submit a report on such agency's policy  to  the  governor,
 the speaker of the assembly and the temporary president of the senate.
   (ii) Such report shall include, but not be limited to:
   (A)  A  statement  of the effectiveness of the policy in providing the
 public with free online access to papers  on  research  funded  by  such
 agency;
   (B)  A  list of papers published in peer-reviewed journals that report
 on research funded by such agency; and
   (C) A corresponding list of papers made available by the agency  as  a
 result of this act.
   §  3. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
 law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any
 rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act  on  its
 effective date are authorized to be made and completed on or before such
 effective date.

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

2025-S4693 (ACTIVE) - Details

2025-S4693 (ACTIVE) - Summary

2025-S4693 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S4693 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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Cordell Cleare

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

2025-S4693 (ACTIVE) - Details

2025-S4693 (ACTIVE) - Summary

2025-S4693 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S4693 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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