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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7822--A
 
                               2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                      May 18, 2011
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  MAGNARELLI  -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Governmental Operations -- recommitted to  the  Committee
          on  Governmental Operations in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2
          -- 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, 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 added by chapter 524 of the laws of 2005,
     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 [either]:
    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; [or] if such report contains confidential information or is provided
    14  with the understanding that further disclosure of certain information in
    15  such  reports  is prohibited, provided that, such report shall be posted
    16  to the agency's website with all such confidential information redacted;
    17  or
    18    (ii) making such document available  on  its  website  and  sending  a
    19  printed  letter  or  notice to each member of the legislature, or to the
    20  specified legislative officers or chairpersons,  as  the  case  may  be,
    21  indicating the availability of such report on the agency's website.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04879-02-2
        A. 7822--A                          2
 
     1    (b)  Such  letter  or  notice  shall  include the name of the specific
     2  report, the specific web address at which the report can be accessed  or
     3  instructions on how to access the report from the agency's homepage, and
     4  the  name  of  the person at the state agency to whom the legislator may
     5  direct a request to obtain a printed copy of the report, free of charge,
     6  if so desired.
     7    §  2.   This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     8  have become a law.