Bill Text: NY A08785 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to the disclosure of records and meetings by the port authority of New York and New Jersey to the public; provides that the state law with the greatest rights of access shall be deemed to apply where laws conflict.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 32-9)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-06-18 - substituted by s6718c [A08785 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A08785-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        8785--C
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 14, 2014
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by M. of A. PAULIN, BRENNAN, ENGLEBRIGHT, BUCHWALD, SCARBOR-
         OUGH,  GALEF,  OTIS,  CAHILL,  CLARK,  COLTON,  DINOWITZ,   GOTTFRIED,
         GUNTHER,  JAFFEE,  ROSA,  SIMOTAS,  SKOUFIS, STECK, TITONE, ZEBROWSKI,
         MONTESANO, BORELLI, FITZPATRICK, LUPINACCI,  McKEVITT,  RA,  ABINANTI,
         WEPRIN  -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BARCLAY, BRAUNSTEIN, CAMARA,
         COOK, DenDEKKER, GLICK, JACOBS, McDONOUGH, MOSLEY,  SCHIMEL,  SWEENEY,
         THIELE,  WEISENBERG  --  read  once  and  referred to the Committee on
         Corporations, Authorities and Commissions -- reported and referred  to
         the  Committee on Codes -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
         reprinted as amended  and  recommitted  to  said  committee  --  again
         reported  from  said  committee  with amendments, ordered reprinted as
         amended and recommitted to said committee -- reported and referred  to
         the  Committee  on  Rules -- Rules Committee discharged, bill amended,
         ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to the Committee on Rules
       AN ACT to amend chapter 154 of the laws of 1921  relating  to  the  port
         authority of New York and New Jersey, in relation to the disclosure of
         records
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 1 of chapter 154 of the laws of  1921  relating  to
    2  the port authority of New York and New Jersey is amended by adding a new
    3  article XV-B to read as follows:
    4                                 ARTICLE XV-B.
    5    1.  NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY PROVISION TO THE CONTRARY, THE RECORDS OF THE
    6  PORT AUTHORITY SHALL BE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC IN ACCORDANCE WITH  THE  LAWS
    7  OF  NEW  YORK,  ARTICLES  6  AND 6-A OF THE PUBLIC OFFICERS LAW, AND NEW
    8  JERSEY, P.L. 1963, C. 73 (C. 47:1A-1 ET SEQ.), PERTAINING TO THE DISCLO-
    9  SURE OF GOVERNMENT RECORDS.
   10    2. WHEN THERE IS AN INCONSISTENCY BETWEEN THE LAW OF THE STATE OF  NEW
   11  YORK  AND  THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY, THE LAW OF THE STATE THAT
   12  PROVIDED THE GREATEST RIGHTS OF ACCESS ON THE DATE THAT THE  CHAPTER  OF
   13  THE LAWS OF 2014 THAT ADDED THIS ARTICLE BECAME A LAW SHALL APPLY.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD14027-10-4
       A. 8785--C                          2
    1    3. THE PROVISIONS OF ARTICLE 78 OF THE CIVIL PRACTICE LAW AND RULES OF
    2  THE  STATE  OF NEW YORK OR P.L. 1963, C. 73 (C. 47:1A-1 ET SEQ.), OF THE
    3  LAWS OF NEW JERSEY, AS APPLICABLE, SHALL APPLY TO ENFORCE THE PROVISIONS
    4  OF THIS ARTICLE.
    5    S 2. Severability clause. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivi-
    6  sion,  section  or  part  of  this act shall be adjudged by any court of
    7  competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment  shall  not  affect,
    8  impair,  or  invalidate  the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in
    9  its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph,  subdivision,  section
   10  or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judg-
   11  ment shall have been rendered. It is hereby declared to be the intent of
   12  the  legislature  that  this  act  would  have been enacted even if such
   13  invalid provisions had not been included herein.
   14    S 3. This act shall take effect upon the enactment  into  law  by  the
   15  state  of New Jersey of legislation having an identical effect with this
   16  act, but if the state of New Jersey  shall  have  already  enacted  such
   17  legislation, this act shall take effect immediately. The chairman of the
   18  port  authority  shall  notify  the legislative bill drafting commission
   19  upon the enactment into law of such legislation by both such  states  in
   20  order  that the commission may maintain an accurate and timely effective
   21  data base of the official text of the laws of the state of New  York  in
   22  furtherance  of effecting the provision of section 44 of the legislative
   23  law and section 70-b of the public officers law.