Bill Text: NY A01108 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires that minutes taken at a meeting of a public body be posted on the agency's website within two weeks from an open meeting and one week from an executive session.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Passed) 2021-11-08 - signed chap.587 [A01108 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A01108-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1108--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 7, 2021
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        Introduced  by M. of A. PAULIN, GALLAGHER, SEAWRIGHT, GALEF -- read once
          and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        AN  ACT  to amend the public officers law, in relation to requiring that
          minutes of meetings of a public body be posted on its website

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 106 of the public officers law, as
     2  amended  by  chapter 704 of the laws of 1979, such section as renumbered
     3  by chapter 652 of the laws of 1983, is amended to read as follows:
     4    3. Minutes of meetings of all public bodies shall be available to  the
     5  public  in  accordance with the provisions of the freedom of information
     6  law within two weeks from the date of such meeting except  that  minutes
     7  taken  pursuant  to  subdivision  two  [hereof] of this section shall be
     8  available to the public within one week from the date of  the  executive
     9  session.    If  the  agency in which a public body functions maintains a
    10  regularly and routinely updated website and utilizes a high speed inter-
    11  net connection, such minutes shall be posted on the website  within  two
    12  weeks  from  the date of such meeting except that minutes taken pursuant
    13  to subdivision two of this section shall  be  available  to  the  public
    14  within  one week from the date of the executive session. For purposes of
    15  this  subdivision  unabridged  video  recordings  or  unabridged   audio
    16  recordings or unabridged written transcripts may be deemed to be meeting
    17  minutes.  Nothing  in this section shall require the creation of minutes
    18  if the public body would not otherwise take them.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06235-08-1