DeStefano, Englebright, Forrest, Santabarbara, Seawright, Smith, Taylor
 
Add §170-f, Exec L; amd §103, St Tech L
 
Requires the website of each contractor and vendor who provides services pursuant to a state contract to conform any website provided pursuant to such contract with the most current version of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines adopted by the World Wide Web Consortium for accessibility, or any successor standards.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8453--A
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
November 17, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. SIMON, DINOWITZ, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, MAMDANI, DICK-
ENS, GOTTFRIED, MITAYNES, ZINERMAN, GALEF, SALKA -- Multi-Sponsored by
-- M. of A. DeSTEFANO, ENGLEBRIGHT, FORREST, OTIS, SANTABARBARA,
SEAWRIGHT, SMITH, TAYLOR -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Governmental Operations -- recommitted to the Committee on Govern-
mental Operations in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the executive law and the state technology law, in
relation to requiring state contractors and vendors to comply with the
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 170-f
2 to read as follows:
3 § 170-f. Website accessibility; contractors and vendors. Each
4 contractor, subcontractor, vendor, consultant, or other person providing
5 services pursuant to a state contract shall be required to conform any
6 website provided by such contractor, subcontractor, vendor, consultant,
7 or person in relation to and for the purpose of the provision of such
8 services to the most current version of the Web Content Accessibility
9 Guidelines adopted by the World Wide Web Consortium for accessibility,
10 or any successor standards.
11 § 2. Subdivisions 20 and 21 of section 103 of the state technology law
12 are renumbered subdivisions 21 and 22, and a new subdivision 20 is added
13 to read as follows:
14 20. To issue guidance for contractors, subcontractors, vendors,
15 consultants, or other persons in their compliance with the Web Content
16 Accessibility Guidelines required pursuant to section one hundred seven-
17 ty-f of the executive law.
18 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
19 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13040-02-2