STATE OF NEW YORK
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7776
IN SENATE
February 22, 2018
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Introduced by Sen. BENJAMIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
AN ACT to amend the retirement and social security law, the education
law, and the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation
to requiring boards of trustees of public retirement systems to post
board meeting minutes on their websites
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The retirement and social security law is amended by adding
2 a new section 805-a to read as follows:
3 § 805-a. Minutes of public retirement system board meetings. It shall
4 be the policy of the boards of trustees of all public retirement systems
5 to make a copy of minutes of any official meeting, subject to the
6 provisions of article seven of the public officers law, electronically
7 available on such public retirement system's website to the extent prac-
8 ticable or otherwise required by law.
9 § 2. The education law is amended by adding a new section 506-a to
10 read as follows:
11 § 506-a. Board meetings; minutes and records. The board shall keep
12 minutes of its own proceedings and records of its other official
13 actions, and shall make a copy of such minutes electronically available
14 on its website to the extent practicable, provided that any information
15 deemed confidential or subject to the exceptions provided for in article
16 seven of the public officers law may be redacted or omitted from such
17 public postings.
18 § 3. Section 13-103 of the administrative code of the city of New York
19 is amended by adding a new subdivision h to read as follows:
20 h. The board shall keep minutes of its own proceedings and records of
21 its other official actions, and shall make a copy of such minutes elec-
22 tronically available on its website to the extent practicable, provided
23 that any information deemed confidential or subject to the exceptions
24 provided for in article seven of the public officers law may be redacted
25 or omitted from such public postings.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 § 4. Section 13-202 of the administrative code of the city of New York
2 is amended by adding a new subdivision h to read as follows:
3 h. The board shall keep minutes of its own proceedings and records of
4 its other official actions, and shall make a copy of such minutes elec-
5 tronically available on its website to the extent practicable, provided
6 that any information deemed confidential or subject to the exceptions
7 provided for in article seven of the public officers law may be redacted
8 or omitted from such public postings.
9 § 5. Section 13-302 of the administrative code of the city of New York
10 is amended by adding a new subdivision h to read as follows:
11 h. The board shall keep minutes of its own proceedings and records of
12 its other official actions, and shall make a copy of such minutes elec-
13 tronically available on its website to the extent practicable, provided
14 that any information deemed confidential or subject to the exceptions
15 provided for in article seven of the public officers law may be redacted
16 or omitted from such public postings.
17 § 6. Section 13-516 of the administrative code of the city of New York
18 is amended to read as follows:
19 § 13-516 Retirement board; minutes and records. The retirement board
20 shall keep [a record] minutes and records of all its proceedings and its
21 other official actions open to public inspection and shall make a copy
22 of such minutes electronically available on its website to the extent
23 practicable, provided that any information deemed confidential or
24 subject to the exceptions provided for in article seven of the public
25 officers law may be redacted or omitted from such public postings.
26 § 7. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
27 have become a law.
