Bill Text: NY A02700 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires public bodies to post video recordings of open meetings on their websites within five days of such meetings; requires such recordings be maintained for a period of five years.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to governmental operations [A02700 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A02700-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          2700

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 26, 2023
                                       ___________

        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 requiring public
          bodies to post video recordings of open meetings

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision (f) of section 103 of the public officers  law,
     2  as  amended  by  chapter  319 of the laws of 2016, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    (f) Open meetings of [an agency or authority] a public body shall  be,
     5  to  the  extent practicable and within available funds, broadcast to the
     6  public and maintained as records of the  [agency  or  authority]  public
     7  body.  If  the [agency or authority] public body maintains a website and
     8  utilizes a high speed internet connection, such open meeting  shall  be,
     9  to  the  extent  practicable  and within available funds, streamed on or
    10  available through such website in real-time, and video recording of such
    11  open meeting shall be posted on such website within five  business  days
    12  of  the  meeting  and  for  a reasonable time after the meeting and such
    13  recordings shall be maintained for a period of not less than five years.
    14  [For the purposes of this subdivision, the term "agency" shall mean only
    15  a state department, board, bureau, division, council or office  and  any
    16  public  corporation  the  majority of whose members are appointed by the
    17  governor. For purposes of this subdivision, the term  "authority"  shall
    18  mean  a  public  authority  or  public benefit corporation created by or
    19  existing under any state law, at least one of whose members is appointed
    20  by the governor (including any subsidiaries of such public authority  or
    21  public  benefit  corporation), other than an interstate or international
    22  authority or public benefit corporation.]
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05312-01-3