Bill Text: NY S06961 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

---

Bill Title: Requires certain meetings between the governor, the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly relating to the state budget to be open to the general public; to provide an opportunity for the public to attend, listen to, and observe such meetings; and to broadcast and maintain records of such meetings on each party's website.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S06961 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S06961-Introduced.html

---

                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          6961

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 16, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. BORRELLO -- 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 requiring public
          access to state budget discussions

          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  103-b to read as follows:
     3    § 103-b. Public access to state budget discussions.  1.  Notwithstand-
     4  ing  the  provisions  of this article, or any other law to the contrary,
     5  every meeting of the governor, the temporary president of the senate and
     6  the speaker of the assembly arranged to discuss, negotiate,  or  debate,
     7  in part or in its entirety, the provisions of the state budget, shall be
     8  open to the general public.
     9    2. The host of the meetings under this section shall provide an oppor-
    10  tunity  for  the public to attend, listen and observe the meetings in at
    11  least one physical location at which a member participates and shall  be
    12  open  to  being  photographed, broadcast, webcast, or otherwise recorded
    13  and/or transmitted by audio or video means.
    14    3. Meetings under this section shall, to the  extent  practicable,  be
    15  broadcast  to  the public and maintained as records by the office of the
    16  governor and each house of the legislature and streamed on the  websites
    17  of  the governor, the senate and the assembly in real-time and posted on
    18  such websites within and for a reasonable time after the meeting.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11062-01-3