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A10937 Summary:

BILL NO	A10937
SAME AS	SAME AS S08868
SPONSOR	Rules (Frontus)
COSPNSR
MLTSPNSR
Amd §104, Pub Off L
Requires each local government to live stream and post video recordings of all open meetings and public hearings; requires each local government to post such recordings for a period of not less than five years.

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A10937 Actions:

BILL NO	A10937
08/17/2020	referred to governmental operations

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A10937 Committee Votes:

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A10937 Floor Votes:

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A10937 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10937
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                     August 17, 2020
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        Introduced  by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Frontus) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
 
        AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation  to  requiring  all
          local governments to live stream open meetings and public hearings and
          make  the  recordings  of  such meetings and hearings available on the
          webpage of the local government

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Section 104 of the public officers law is amended by adding
     2  a new subdivision 5-a to read as follows:
     3    5-a.  Local  governments shall be required, to the extent practicable,
     4  to stream all open meetings and public hearings on its website in  real-
     5  time. Each local government shall post video recordings of all such open
     6  meetings and public hearings on its website within five business days of
     7  the  meeting  or hearing and shall maintain such recordings for a period
     8  of not less than five years.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    10  it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD17049-02-0

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