Requires inter-agency records prepared by an outside consultant at the behest of an agency to be subject to FOIL disclosure unless such records are otherwise exempted from disclosure.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3502--A
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 31, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
ment Operations -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to requiring
inter-agency records prepared by an outside consultant at the behest
of an agency to be subject to FOIL disclosure
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph iv of paragraph (g) of subdivision 2 of
2 section 87 of the public officers law, as added by chapter 510 of the
3 laws of 1999, is amended and a new subparagraph v is added to read as
4 follows:
5 iv. external audits, including but not limited to audits performed by
6 the comptroller and the federal government; [or]
7 v. records prepared by an outside consultant at the behest of an agen-
8 cy, unless such records are otherwise exempted from disclosure pursuant
9 to this subdivision when prepared by the agency itself; or
10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06927-02-3
