Bill Text: NY A01621 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 1621 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires that committee and floor votes be made available online and that session and committee meetings be webcast; listing shall include correspondence from the governor relating to legislation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to governmental operations [A01621 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A01621-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          1621
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 12, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Operations
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  legislative  law, in relation to requiring that
          committee and floor votes be made available online  and  that  session
          and committee meetings be live webcast and archived
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The legislative law is amended by adding a new section 54-b
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 54-b. Committee and floor votes and committee meetings to be  posted
     4  online.  1.  All  votes  taken on the floor of the senate or assembly or
     5  votes taken in any committee of the legislature shall be listed  on  the
     6  official  website  of  the respective houses within twenty-four hours of
     7  such vote, to the extent practicable.   Such listing shall  include  the
     8  bill  number,  date  of  vote,  the  summary of the legislation from the
     9  legislative retrieval system, whether such vote was on the floor or in a
    10  committee and each member's vote listed as aye, nay, excused, absent  or
    11  abstain.  Such listing shall also include correspondence from the gover-
    12  nor  relating  to legislation, such as messages of necessity and veto or
    13  approval memoranda.
    14    2. Every committee meeting and hearing of the  legislature  and  every
    15  session  shall be live webcast and archived through the official website
    16  of each respective house to the extent practicable.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    18  it shall have become a law; provided, however, that  the  obligation  to
    19  archive  webcasts  of  committee  meetings, hearings and sessions of the
    20  legislature as provided in section one of this act shall only  apply  to
    21  webcasts occurring on or after the effective date of this act.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01508-01-7