Bill Text: NY A00522 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the availability of agency records prior to or at an open meeting; removes the "to the extent practicable at least twenty-four hours" limitation from the requirement that agencies and departments shall make records available.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - referred to governmental operations [A00522 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A00522-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           522

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2025
                                       ___________

        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:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision (e) of section 103 of the public officers  law,
     2  as  amended  by  chapter  481 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    (e) Agency records available to the public pursuant to article six  of
     5  this chapter, as well as any proposed resolution, law, rule, regulation,
     6  policy  or any amendment thereto, that is scheduled to be the subject of
     7  discussion by a public body during an open meeting shall be made  avail-
     8  able,  upon  request therefor, [to the extent practicable at least twen-
     9  ty-four hours] prior to the meeting during which  the  records  will  be
    10  discussed. Copies of such records may be made available for a reasonable
    11  fee,  determined  in the same manner as provided therefor in article six
    12  of this chapter. If the agency in which a public  body  functions  main-
    13  tains  a  regularly  and  routinely  updated website and utilizes a high
    14  speed internet connection, such records shall be posted on  the  website
    15  to  the extent practicable at least twenty-four hours prior to the meet-
    16  ing. An agency may, but shall not  be  required  to,  expend  additional
    17  moneys to implement the provisions of this subdivision.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02106-01-5