Assembly Bill A9998

Signed By Governor
2015-2016 Legislative Session

Requires state authorities to conduct open meetings and provide an internet broadcast of its meetings, where practicable

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-A9998 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7157
Law Section:
Public Officers Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง103, Pub Off L

2015-A9998 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires state authorities to conduct open meetings and provide an internet broadcast of its meetings, where practicable.

2015-A9998 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  9998

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               May 4, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. QUART -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions

AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to  requiring  open
  meetings  and  the  internet  broadcast of open meetings of each state
  authority, where practicable

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1. Subdivision (f) of section 103 of the public officers law,
as added by chapter 519 of the laws of  2015,  is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  (f)  Open  meetings  of an agency OR AUTHORITY shall be, to the extent
practicable and within available funds,  broadcast  to  the  public  and
maintained  as  records  of  the  agency  OR AUTHORITY. If the agency OR
AUTHORITY maintains  a  website  and  utilizes  a  high  speed  internet
connection,  such  open  meeting shall be, to the extent practicable and
within available funds, streamed on such website in real-time, and post-
ed on such website within and for a reasonable time after  the  meeting.
For  the purposes of this subdivision, the term "agency" shall mean only
a state department, board, bureau, division, council or office  and  any
public  corporation  the  majority of whose members are appointed by the
governor. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION, THE TERM  "AUTHORITY"  SHALL
MEAN  A  PUBLIC  AUTHORITY  OR  PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION CREATED BY OR
EXISTING UNDER ANY STATE LAW, AT LEAST ONE OF WHOSE MEMBERS IS APPOINTED
BY THE GOVERNOR (INCLUDING ANY SUBSIDIARIES OF SUCH PUBLIC AUTHORITY  OR
PUBLIC  BENEFIT  CORPORATION), OTHER THAN AN INTERSTATE OR INTERNATIONAL
AUTHORITY OR PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
it shall have become a law.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD01911-08-6

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