Bill Text: NY S01525 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 1525 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Allows members of a public body who cannot physically attend a meeting due to a disability to be counted as present for quorum purposes at meetings attended remotely.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S01525 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S01525-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          1525

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 12, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. PERSAUD, MANNION -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the  Committee  on  Investigations
          and Government Operations

        AN  ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to quorum require-
          ments for meetings conducted remotely

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  103-a  of  the public officers law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
     3    2-a. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any member who has  a
     4  disability as defined in section two hundred ninety-two of the executive
     5  law  that  renders  such  member  unable to be physically present at any
     6  meeting location may be considered present for  purposes  of  fulfilling
     7  the quorum requirement for the public body at meetings conducted through
     8  videoconferencing,  provided  the applicable criteria in subdivision two
     9  of this section are otherwise met.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the  amend-
    11  ments to section 103-a of the public officers law made by section one of
    12  this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and shall be deemed
    13  repealed therewith.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03649-01-3