Bill Text: NY A09940 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides a videoconferencing exemption from the open meetings law for certain community boards, the board of education of the city school district of the city of New York and for certain community councils and any other public body of which the majority of the public body's membership are uncompensated, except for necessary expenses.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-09-16 - enacting clause stricken [A09940 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A09940-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9940

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 19, 2022
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        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 providing a
          videoconferencing exemption from the open  meetings  law  for  certain
          community boards and certain other public bodies

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision (c) of section 103 of the public officers  law,
     2  as  added  by  chapter  289  of  the laws of 2000, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    (c) A public body that uses videoconferencing to conduct its  meetings
     5  shall  provide  an  opportunity  for  the  public  to attend, listen and
     6  observe at any site at which a member participates, provided this subdi-
     7  vision shall not apply  to  community  boards  established  pursuant  to
     8  section  twenty-eight hundred of the New York City charter, the board of
     9  education of the city school district of the city of New  York  and  the
    10  community  councils  established pursuant to section twenty-five hundred
    11  ninety-b of the education law or any other  public  body  of  which  the
    12  majority  of  the public body's membership are uncompensated, except for
    13  necessary expenses.
    14    § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 104 of the public officers law, as added
    15  by chapter 289 of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as follows:
    16    4. If videoconferencing is used  to  conduct  a  meeting,  the  public
    17  notice  for  the  meeting shall inform the public that videoconferencing
    18  will be used, identify the locations for the meeting, and state that the
    19  public has the right to attend the meeting  at  any  of  the  locations,
    20  provided  this  subdivision  shall  not apply to community boards estab-
    21  lished pursuant to section twenty-eight hundred of  the  New  York  City
    22  charter,  the board of education of the city school district of the city
    23  of New York and the community councils established pursuant  to  section
    24  twenty-five  hundred  ninety-b  of the education law or any other public
    25  body of which the majority of the public body's membership are uncompen-
    26  sated, except for necessary expenses, except that the public notice  for
    27  the  meeting shall inform the public that videoconferencing will be used

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        A. 9940                             2

     1  and identify the internet address at which members  of  the  public  can
     2  view  the  meeting,  and,  when required, participate in such meeting or
     3  otherwise provide comment.
     4    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.