Requires public bodies to post video recordings of open meetings on their websites within five days of such meetings; requires such recordings be maintained for a period of five years.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4475
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 9, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. ADDABBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
ment Operations
AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to requiring public
bodies to post video recordings of open meetings
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision (f) of section 103 of the public officers law,
2 as amended by chapter 319 of the laws of 2016, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 (f) Open meetings of [an agency or authority] a public body shall be,
5 to the extent practicable and within available funds, broadcast to the
6 public and maintained as records of the [agency or authority] public
7 body. If the [agency or authority] public body maintains a website and
8 utilizes a high speed internet connection, such open meeting shall be,
9 to the extent practicable and within available funds, streamed on or
10 available through such website in real-time, and video recording of such
11 open meeting shall be posted on such website within five business days
12 of the meeting and for a reasonable time after the meeting and such
13 recordings shall be maintained for a period of not less than five years.
14 [For the purposes of this subdivision, the term "agency" shall mean only
15 a state department, board, bureau, division, council or office and any
16 public corporation the majority of whose members are appointed by the
17 governor. For purposes of this subdivision, the term "authority" shall
18 mean a public authority or public benefit corporation created by or
19 existing under any state law, at least one of whose members is appointed
20 by the governor (including any subsidiaries of such public authority or
21 public benefit corporation), other than an interstate or international
22 authority or public benefit corporation.]
23 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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