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A00066 Summary:

BILL NOA00066
 
SAME ASNo Same As
 
SPONSORGunther
 
COSPNSRGalef, Otis, Buttenschon
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Add 204-a, Ed L
 
Requires that each meeting of the Board of Regents be streamed live and be made available to the public.
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A00066 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                           66
 
                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                       (Prefiled)
 
                                     January 6, 2021
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER, GALEF, OTIS -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Education
 
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education  law, in relation to providing a live
          webcast for meetings of the board of regents

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 204-a
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 204-a. Webcasting meetings. 1.  The entirety of each meeting of  the
     4  regents shall be live webcast and be made available to the public on the
     5  department's website prior to the start of each meeting, and archived on
     6  the department's website, for a period of no less than two years, within
     7  twenty-four  hours  of the adjournment of the last meeting.  The depart-
     8  ment shall provide notice to the public, via the  department's  website,
     9  of  the  availability of the live webcast of such meeting.  The require-
    10  ment to live webcast the entirety of  each  meeting  shall  not  include
    11  executive sessions.
    12    2.  For  the purposes of this section the term "meeting" shall include
    13  any committee, subcommittee, and to the extent practicable,  task  force
    14  or subgroup of the regents.
    15    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    16  have become a law.
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02498-01-1
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