Bill Text: NY A00569 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the publication of information on public meetings; requires the office of information technology services to develop a mobile application and website to publish information on every public meeting held by a state or local public body; requires public bodies to report such meetings to the office of information technology services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - referred to governmental operations [A00569 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A00569-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                           569

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. EPSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the state technology law and the public officers law, in
          relation to the publication of information on public meetings

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.    Section  103  of the state technology law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 26 to read as follows:
     3    26. To develop a mobile application and corresponding internet website
     4  to publish information on every public meeting held by a state or  local
     5  public  body under article seven of the public officers law. Such infor-
     6  mation shall include, but not be limited to:
     7    (a) the date of the public meeting;
     8    (b) the time of the public meeting;
     9    (c) the location of the public meeting including links  for  videocon-
    10  ferencing; and
    11    (d) summaries of the purpose of the public meeting.
    12    § 2. Section 104 of the public officers law is amended by adding a new
    13  subdivision 7 to read as follows:
    14    7. Public notice of a meeting held by a state or local public body, as
    15  defined  by  this  article,  shall  be electronically transmitted to the
    16  office of information technology services, within the timeframes  estab-
    17  lished  in  subdivisions one and two of this section, for publication on
    18  the mobile application  and  corresponding  internet  website  developed
    19  pursuant  to  subdivision twenty-six of section one hundred three of the
    20  state technology law.
    21    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    22  it shall have become a law.

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