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--A
                                 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  --
         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
       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 and meetings
         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 AND MEETINGS OF THE BOARD, AS WELL AS ITS COMMITTEES  AND
    7  SUBCOMMITTEES  CONSISTING OF TWO OR MORE COMMISSIONERS, SHALL BE OPEN TO
    8  THE PUBLIC IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF NEW YORK, ARTICLES 6, 6-A  AND
    9  7  OF  THE  PUBLIC  OFFICERS LAW, AND NEW JERSEY, NJSA 47:1A ET SEQ. AND
   10  NJSA 10:4-8 ET SEQ., PERTAINING TO THE DISCLOSURE OF GOVERNMENT  RECORDS
   11  AND PUBLIC ACCESS TO MEETINGS OF GOVERNMENT BODIES.
   12    2.  WHEN THERE IS AN INCONSISTENCY BETWEEN THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW
   13  YORK AND THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY, THE LAW OF THE  STATE  THAT
   14  PROVIDED  THE  GREATEST RIGHTS OF ACCESS ON THE DATE THAT THE CHAPTER OF
   15  THE LAWS OF 2014 THAT ADDED THIS ARTICLE BECAME A LAW SHALL APPLY.
   16    3. THE PROVISIONS OF ARTICLE 78 OF THE CIVIL PRACTICE LAW AND RULES OF
   17  THE STATE OF NEW YORK OR NJSA 47:1-A ET SEQ. AND NJSA 10:4-8 ET SEQ.  OF
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD14027-02-4
       A. 8785--A                          2
    1  THE  LAWS  OF  NEW  JERSEY,  AS  APPLICABLE,  SHALL APPLY TO ENFORCE THE
    2  PROVISIONS OF THIS ARTICLE.
    3    S 2. Severability clause. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivi-
    4  sion,  section  or  part  of  this act shall be adjudged by any court of
    5  competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment  shall  not  affect,
    6  impair,  or  invalidate  the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in
    7  its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph,  subdivision,  section
    8  or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judg-
    9  ment shall have been rendered. It is hereby declared to be the intent of
   10  the  legislature  that  this  act  would  have been enacted even if such
   11  invalid provisions had not been included herein.
   12    S 3. This act shall take effect upon the enactment  into  law  by  the
   13  state  of New Jersey of legislation having an identical effect with this
   14  act, but if the state of New Jersey  shall  have  already  enacted  such
   15  legislation, this act shall take effect immediately. The chairman of the
   16  port  authority  shall  notify  the legislative bill drafting commission
   17  upon the enactment into law of such legislation by both such  states  in
   18  order  that the commission may maintain an accurate and timely effective
   19  data base of the official text of the laws of the state of New  York  in
   20  furtherance  of effecting the provision of section 44 of the legislative
   21  law and section 70-b of the public officers law.