A06640 Summary:
| BILL NO | A06640 |
| SAME AS | SAME AS S00539 |
| SPONSOR | Frontus |
| COSPNSR | |
| MLTSPNSR | |
| Amd §104, Pub Off L | |
| Requires each local government to live stream and post video recordings of all open meetings and public hearings; requires each local government to post such recordings for a period of not less than five years. | |
A06640 Text:
Go to topSTATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6640 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 23, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. FRONTUS -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Governmental Operations AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to requiring all local governments to live stream open meetings and public hearings and make the recordings of such meetings and hearings available on the webpage of the local government The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 104 of the public officers law is amended by adding 2 a new subdivision 5-a to read as follows: 3 5-a. Local governments shall be required, to the extent practicable, 4 to stream all open meetings and public hearings on its website in real- 5 time. Each local government shall post video recordings of all such open 6 meetings and public hearings on its website within five business days of 7 the meeting or hearing and shall maintain such recordings for a period 8 of not less than five years. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after 10 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04864-01-1