Directs the department of state to conduct a study on the use of legal material in an electronic format that guarantees the authenticity of and access to such legal materials.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6136--B
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 11, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. BONACIC -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee -- recommitted to the Committee on Finance in
accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to direct the department of state to conduct a study on the use
of legal material in an electronic format and access to such legal
materials
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. 1. (a) The department of state, in consultation with any
2 entity that the secretary of state deems appropriate, shall conduct a
3 study on the use of legal material in an electronic format that guaran-
4 tees the authenticity of and access to such legal materials of the state
5 of New York. For the purposes of this act, "legal material" shall mean,
6 whether or not in effect: the constitution of the state of New York; the
7 laws of the state of New York; any state agency rule, regulation or
8 decision that has or had the effect of law; material published in the
9 New York register; and the New York code of rules and regulations.
10 (b) The study shall include, but not be limited to:
11 i. standards regarding the use, authentication, preservation, securi-
12 ty, and public access of legal material, and the fiscal implications
13 thereof;
14 ii. the needs of users of legal material in an electronic format;
15 iii. views of stakeholders pertaining to the authentication, use,
16 preservation, and security of legal materials in an electronic format;
17 iv. methods and technologies used for the authentication, use, preser-
18 vation and security of legal material, technology used by the state and
19 other states to disseminate legal material; and
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 v. current practices of the state of New York with regard to session
2 laws, the code of statutes, the register, administrative code, and court
3 opinions in both electronic and non-electronic format.
4 2. On or before November 1, 2019, the department of state shall submit
5 such study to the governor, the temporary president of the senate and
6 the speaker of the assembly and shall publicly post such study on the
7 department of state's website.
8 3. The department of state may request, and is authorized to receive,
9 any information from any state agency that is relevant and material to
10 the completion of such study. Such information received by the depart-
11 ment of state shall be subject to the same requirements for confiden-
12 tiality and limitations on use, if any, as are applicable to such state
13 agency's use of such information.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
