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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4704--A
Cal. No. 473
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 9, 2021
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Introduced by Sen. KAPLAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
ment Operations -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to
first and second report, ordered to a third reading, amended and
ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading
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. For purposes of
15 this subdivision unabridged video recordings or unabridged audio
16 recordings or unabridged written transcripts may be deemed to be meeting
17 minutes. Nothing in this section shall require the creation of minutes
18 if the public body would not otherwise take them.
19 § 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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