Expands the type of information that is exempt from disclosure to include the name, address, telephone number, or email address of anyone who is a member of or enrolled in a program at a senior center that a public agency administers or sponsors.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6032
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 27, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Aging
AN ACT to amend the elder law, in relation to the privacy of contact
information of senior center members
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The elder law is amended by adding a new section 226 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 226. Privacy of senior center visitor records. 1. Definitions. As
4 used in this section:
5 (a) "Senior center" shall mean facilities operated by an area office
6 of the aging or operated by an entity that has contracted with the
7 office or municipality to provide services to senior citizens on a regu-
8 lar basis including, but not limited to meals, recreation and coun-
9 seling.
10 (b) "Contact information" shall mean name, address and phone number of
11 senior citizens.
12 2. Confidentiality of records. Notwithstanding the provisions of any
13 other law, contact information of seniors who visit a senior center
14 shall not be open to the public, nor subject to disclosure under the
15 freedom of information law pursuant to article six of the public offi-
16 cers law, and no public entity or employee, officer or agent thereof
17 shall disclose such information.
18 3. Exception. Nothing in this section shall preclude the disclosure of
19 contact information that may be obtained and, if otherwise admissible,
20 be used in a civil court or other civil administrative or adjudicatory
21 body in any action or proceeding pending therein when such action or
22 proceeding relates directly to the attendance of a senior center.
23 4. Violations. Any person who knowingly releases or permits the
24 disclosure of the contact information that is confidential under this
25 section to a person or entity not entitled to receive such information
26 shall be subject to a civil penalty of up to five thousand dollars.
27 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD07533-01-3
