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A11142 Summary:

BILL NO	A11142
SAME AS	No Same As
SPONSOR	Rules (Paulin)
COSPNSR
MLTSPNSR
Amd §106, Pub Off L
Requires that minutes taken at a meeting of a public body be posted on the agency's website within two weeks from an open meeting and one week from an executive session.

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A11142 Actions:

BILL NO	A11142
11/06/2020	referred to governmental operations

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A11142 Committee Votes:

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A11142 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          11142
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    November 6, 2020
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        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Paulin) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
 
        AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to  requiring  that
          minutes of meetings of a public body be posted on its website
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 106 of the public officers law, as
     2  amended by chapter 704 of the laws of 1979, such section  as  renumbered
     3  by chapter 652 of the laws of 1983, is amended to read as follows:
     4    3.  Minutes of meetings of all public bodies shall be available to the
     5  public in accordance with the provisions of the freedom  of  information
     6  law  within  two weeks from the date of such meeting except that minutes
     7  taken pursuant to subdivision two [hereof]  of  this  section  shall  be
     8  available  to  the public within one week from the date of the executive
     9  session.  If the agency in which a public  body  functions  maintains  a
    10  regularly and routinely updated website and utilizes a high speed inter-
    11  net  connection,  such minutes shall be posted on the website within two
    12  weeks from the date of such meeting except that minutes  taken  pursuant
    13  to  subdivision  two  of  this  section shall be available to the public
    14  within one week from the date of the executive session.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD17332-02-0

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