Relates to the availability of agency records prior to or at an open meeting; removes the "to the extent practicable as determined by the agency or the department" limitation from the requirement that agencies and departments shall make records available.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7355
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 6, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to the availability
of agency records prior to or at an open meeting
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision (e) of section 103 of the public officers law,
2 as added by chapter 603 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 (e) Agency records available to the public pursuant to article six of
5 this chapter, as well as any proposed resolution, law, rule, regulation,
6 policy or any amendment thereto, that is scheduled to be the subject of
7 discussion by a public body during an open meeting shall be made avail-
8 able, upon request therefor, [to the extent practicable as determined by
9 the agency or the department,] prior to or at the meeting during which
10 the records will be discussed. Copies of such records may be made avail-
11 able for a reasonable fee, determined in the same manner as provided
12 therefor in article six of this chapter. If the agency in which a public
13 body functions maintains a regularly and routinely updated website and
14 utilizes a high speed internet connection, such records shall be posted
15 on the website [to the extent practicable as determined by the agency or
16 the department,] prior to the meeting. An agency may, but shall not be
17 required to, expend additional moneys to implement the provisions of
18 this subdivision.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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