STATE OF NEW YORK
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1920
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 14, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. ASHBY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the preservation of
electronic mail
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 166-a
2 to read as follows:
3 § 166-a. Preservation of electronic mail. Notwithstanding any incon-
4 sistent provision of law, general, special or local, any employee of the
5 state or any municipal subdivision thereof or any department, bureau,
6 board, commission, authority or any other agency or instrumentality of
7 the state or any municipal subdivision thereof shall be required to keep
8 a record of all electronic mail for a period of seven years from the
9 date of creation.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03622-01-5
