Requires municipalities to test the quality of their public internet service including the average range, speed, effectiveness and security; requires each municipal corporation to annually post the results of such testing on its website and to include information on internet safety and security including how members of the public can protect themselves when using publicly available internet services.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2525
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 21, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to requiring
municipalities to test the quality of their public internet service
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The general municipal law is amended by adding a new
2 section 99-yy to read as follows:
3 § 99-yy. Public internet service; testing. 1. Each municipal corpo-
4 ration that offers the public the ability to use their computer or
5 mobile devices for internet access at any of its buildings or other
6 public spaces shall annually test the quality of such internet service
7 including the average range, speed, effectiveness and security.
8 2. Within sixty days of the completion of the testing required in
9 subdivision one of this section, each municipal corporation shall post
10 the results of such testing on its internet website. Such post shall
11 also include information on internet safety and security including how
12 members of the public can protect themselves when using publicly avail-
13 able internet services. Each county shall notify every household in its
14 jurisdiction by mail of the annual posting of test results and where to
15 access such information.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
17 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06641-01-5
