Relates to agency reports; requires such reports to be posted on line; provides for a letter or notice to be sent to members of the legislature indicating the website address and the name of the person at such state agency to whom a legislator may request a printed copy of such report.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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798--A
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 9, 2013
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Introduced by Sen. SQUADRON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance -- recommitted to
the Committee on Finance in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the New York state printing and public documents law and
the state technology law, in relation to agency reports
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 12 of the New York state printing
2 and public documents law, as amended by chapter 278 of the laws of 2012,
3 is amended to read as follows:
4 4. (a) Whenever state law requires a state agency to make, issue,
5 submit, deliver, distribute or forward a report to the "legislature" or
6 to "members of the legislature" or to "both houses of the legislature,"
7 or to any particular legislative officers or chairpersons of legislative
8 committees, subcommittees or commissions, the agency shall satisfy such
9 requirement by:
10 (i) [making, issuing, submitting, delivering, distributing or forward-
11 ing a printed copy of the report to each member of the legislature, or
12 to the specified legislative officers or chairpersons, as the case may
13 be; if such report contains confidential information or is provided with
14 the understanding that further disclosure of certain information in such
15 reports is prohibited, provided that, such report shall be posted to the
16 agency's website with all such confidential information redacted; or]
17 making such document available on the New York state agency documents
18 website, as authorized by subdivision twenty-two of section one hundred
19 three of the state technology law, under the appropriate agency's head-
20 ing and sending a printed letter or notice to each member of the legis-
21 lature, or to the specified legislative officers or chairpersons, as the
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 case may be, indicating the availability of such report on this website;
2 and
3 (ii) making such document available on its website and sending a
4 printed letter or notice to each member of the legislature, or to the
5 specified legislative officers or chairpersons, as the case may be,
6 indicating the availability of such report on the agency's website.
7 (b) Such letter or notice shall include the name of the specific
8 report, the specific web address at which the report can be accessed or
9 instructions on how to access the report from the agency's homepage, and
10 the name of the person at the state agency to whom the legislator may
11 direct a request to obtain a printed copy of the report, free of charge,
12 if so desired.
13 § 2. Section 103 of the state technology law is amended by adding a
14 new subdivision 22 to read as follows:
15 22. To establish, administer and maintain a New York state agency
16 documents website which will include postings of all reports issued by
17 state agencies, departments, public authorities, public benefit corpo-
18 rations or entities whenever state law requires a state agency to make,
19 issue, submit, deliver, distribute or forward a report to the "legisla-
20 ture" or to "members of the legislature" or to "both houses of the
21 legislature", or to any particular legislative officers or chairpersons
22 of legislative committees, subcommittees or commissions. It shall be the
23 responsibility of the New York state agency documents website to serve
24 as the central repository for the posting and archiving of all documents
25 provided to the legislature as required by state law.
26 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
27 it shall have become a law.
