Assembly Bill A4633

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to the failure to produce records in response to a FOIL request; and criminalizes the failure to comply with the freedom of information law

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee


  • 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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2023-A4633 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1641
Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Employees
Law Section:
Public Officers Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§86 & 89, Pub Off L; add Title P Art 285 §285.05, Pen L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A8186, S5752

2023-A4633 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the failure to produce records in response to a FOIL request; criminalizes the failure to comply with the freedom of information law.

2023-A4633 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4633
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 21, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. MCGOWAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Governmental Employees
 
 AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to the  failure  to
   produce  records in response to a FOIL request; and to amend the penal
   law, in relation to criminalizing the failure to comply with the free-
   dom of information law

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Section 86 of the public officers law is amended by adding
 two new subdivisions 12 and 13 to read as follows:
   12. "STATE AGENCY" MEANS ANY STATE DEPARTMENT,  DIVISION,  COMMISSION,
 PUBLIC AUTHORITY OR PUBLIC CORPORATION.
   13.  "HEAD  OF  AGENCY"  MEANS  THE COMMISSIONER, ACTING COMMISSIONER,
 DEPUTY COMMISSIONER, SUPERINTENDENT, DIRECTOR, DEPUTY DIRECTOR, OR CHIEF
 EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF A STATE AGENCY.
   § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 3 of section 89 of the public  offi-
 cers  law,  as amended by chapter 223 of the laws of 2008, is amended to
 read as follows:
   (a) (1) Each entity subject to the provisions of this article,  within
 five  business  days  of  the  receipt of a written request for a record
 reasonably described, shall:
   (I) make such record available to the person requesting it[,];
   (II) deny such request in writing; or
   (III) furnish a written acknowledgement of the receipt of such request
 and a statement of the approximate date, which shall be reasonable under
 the circumstances of the request, when such request will be  granted  or
 denied,  including,  where  appropriate,  a statement that access to the
 record will be determined in accordance with subdivision  five  of  this
 section.
   (2)  ANY  ENTITY  WHICH  FURNISHES  SUCH A WRITTEN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND
 STATEMENT SHALL HAVE UP TO THIRTY DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THE  REQUEST  TO

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05635-01-3
              

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