Requires the state power authority and the Long Island power authority to webcast all public meetings, record such meetings and make them accessible from the website for at least one year.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1854--A
Cal. No. 174
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 11, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. CROCI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommuni-
cations -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first
report, amended on first report, ordered to a second report and
ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of second report
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to webcasting of
public meetings
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 1002 of the public authorities law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
3 3. In accordance with subdivision f of section one hundred three of
4 the public officers law, open meetings of the authority shall be broad-
5 cast to the public and maintained as records of the authority. Open
6 meetings shall be streamed on the website maintained by the authority,
7 in real time, and posted on such website for a period of at least one
8 year.
9 § 2. Section 1020-c of the public authorities law, as added by chapter
10 517 of the laws of 1986, is amended by adding a new subdivision 4 to
11 read as follows:
12 4. In accordance with subdivision f of section one hundred three of
13 the public officers law, open meetings of the authority shall be broad-
14 cast to the public and maintained as records of the authority. Open
15 meetings shall be streamed on the website maintained by the authority,
16 in real time, and posted on such website for a period of at least one
17 year.
18 § 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
19 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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