STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4177 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 4, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. ANTONACCI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern- ment Operations AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to prohibiting certain confidentiality and nondisclosure provisions from inclusion in contracts entered into by the state The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The public officers law is amended by adding a new section 2 89-a to read as follows: 3 § 89-a. Non-disclosure agreements; prohibitions. Notwithstanding any 4 other provision of law, no agreement or contract entered into by the 5 state or a local government or public authority or school district or 6 the state university of New York or any agency shall contain any 7 provision, clause or language that provides that the contract or agree- 8 ment or any of its terms are confidential or that the parties to the 9 agreement or contract are prohibited from disclosing, discussing, 10 describing or commenting upon the terms of the agreement or contract; 11 provided, however, such non-disclosure agreements shall be permissible 12 in a claim involving sexual harassment if the condition of confidential- 13 ity is the complainant's preference. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00210-01-9