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Speaker Carl E. Heastie
 

A05780 Summary:

BILL NOA05780
 
SAME ASSAME AS S05076
 
SPONSORBrodsky
 
COSPNSR
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd S89, Pub Off L
 
Requires timely disclosure of requested records and makes the willful failure to make timely disclosure of public records pursuant to the provisions of the freedom of information law subject to a civil penalty in an amount not to exceed one thousand dollars.
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A05780 Actions:

BILL NOA05780
 
02/20/2009referred to governmental operations
01/06/2010referred to governmental operations
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A05780 Floor Votes:

There are no votes for this bill in this legislative session.
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A05780 Text:




 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          5780
 
                               2009-2010 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    February 20, 2009
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. BRODSKY -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Governmental Operations
 
        AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to willful  failure
          to make timely disclosure of a public record
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 

     1    Section 1. Section 89 of the public officers law is amended by  adding
     2  a new subdivision 10 to read as follows:
     3    10. Any officer or employee of a state agency charged with the disclo-
     4  sure  of  any  record  in compliance with the provisions of this article
     5  shall make such disclosure within the  time  periods  provided  in  this
     6  section.  Any  agency which employs a person who has willfully failed to
     7  make timely disclosure of such record shall be subject to a civil penal-
     8  ty in an amount not to exceed one thousand dollars.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    10  have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                                   LBD08594-01-9
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