Assembly Bill A8564

Signed By Governor
2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to state agency websites required to offer a mobile friendly form

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Current Bill Status - Signed by Governor

  • 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-A8564 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8021
Law Section:
State Technology Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §210, St Tech L (as proposed in S.5410 & A.6972)

2023-A8564 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to state agency websites required to offer a mobile friendly form; requires mobile friendly forms for state agency websites created or modified with changes to form or function after the effective date of this act and prior to January 1, 2027, and for all state agency websites thereafter; defines terms.

2023-A8564 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8564
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 9, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. OTIS -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Governmental Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the state technology law, in relation  to  state  agency
   websites required to offer a mobile friendly form
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Section 210 of the state technology  law,  as  added  by  a
 chapter  of  the laws of 2023 amending the state technology law relating
 to state agency websites, as proposed in legislative  bills  numbers  S.
 5410  and  A.   6972, is renumbered section 103-c and amended to read as
 follows:
   § 103-c. State agency websites; mobile friendly  websites.  All  state
 agency websites, as defined in section two hundred two of this [article]
 CHAPTER,  shall offer a mobile friendly form and shall be made available
 for all mobile devices that support such technology, PROVIDED THAT  SUCH
 REQUIREMENT SHALL ONLY APPLY TO WEBSITES CREATED OR MODIFIED WITH CHANG-
 ES  TO  FORM  OR  FUNCTION  AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS SECTION AND
 PRIOR TO JANUARY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND  TWENTY-SEVEN,  AND  TO  ALL  STATE
 AGENCY  WEBSITES THEREAFTER.   For the purposes of this section, "mobile
 friendly" shall mean, with respect to a website, that  such  website  is
 configured  in such a way that such website may be navigated, viewed and
 accessed on a smartphone, tablet computer, or similar mobile device. FOR
 THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, "CHANGES TO FORM OR FUNCTION"  SHALL  MEAN
 MODIFICATIONS  TO  THE  VISUAL PRESENTATION, INFORMATIONAL ORGANIZATION,
 WEBSITE INFRASTRUCTURE, OR USER UTILITY OF THE  WEBSITE,  INCLUDING  BUT
 NOT LIMITED TO:
   1.  REDESIGNS  OF  SITE  LAYOUT,  COLOR  SCHEMES,  GRAPHICS,  BRANDING
 ELEMENTS, OR OTHER AESTHETIC COMPONENTS; OR
   2. INTEGRATION OF DYNAMIC INTERFACES.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
 manner  as  a  chapter of the laws of 2023 amending the state technology
 law relating to state agency websites, as proposed in legislative  bills
 numbers S. 5410 and A. 6972, takes effect.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09848-02-4

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