Assembly Bill A5527

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to requests for employee personnel records

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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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2025-A5527 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4726
Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Public Officers Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §87, Pub Off L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A9211, S8509

2025-A5527 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires agencies and public employers to provide notice and a review period to employees whose personnel records have been provided pursuant to the state's freedom of information law.

2025-A5527 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5527
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 14, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. PHEFFER AMATO -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Governmental Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in  relation  to  requests  for
   employee personnel records
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 87 of the public officers law,  as
 added by chapter 302 of the laws of 2024, is amended to read as follows:
   6.  [All  agencies  subject  to the requirements of this article shall
 develop a policy regarding providing a notification to public  employees
 in the event that the agency is responding to a request for such employ-
 ee's  disciplinary  records]  (A)  EVERY AGENCY OR PUBLIC EMPLOYER SHALL
 PROVIDE WRITTEN NOTIFICATION TO AN EMPLOYEE THAT A REQUEST FOR  INFORMA-
 TION  PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THIS ARTICLE SEEKING SUCH EMPLOYEE'S
 PERSONNEL RECORDS HAS BEEN APPROVED. THE  NOTIFICATION  SHALL  LIST  ANY
 DOCUMENTS  REQUESTED,  PROVIDED,  OR  COPIED FOR DISSEMINATION OR PUBLIC
 INSPECTION.
   (B) UPON OFFICIAL NOTIFICATION FROM THE EMPLOYER THAT  A  REQUEST  FOR
 INFORMATION  PURSUANT  TO  THE  PROVISIONS  OF THIS ARTICLE SEEKING SUCH
 EMPLOYEE'S PERSONNEL RECORDS HAS BEEN APPROVED, SUCH EMPLOYEE  SHALL  BE
 GIVEN  THE ABILITY TO INSPECT THEIR PERSONNEL FILE OR ANY OTHER DOCUMENT
 REFERENCING THE EMPLOYEE  AS  PART  OF  THE  INFORMATION  REQUEST.  THIS
 SECTION  SHALL  NOT  BE  A RESTRICTION TO AN EMPLOYEE'S RIGHT TO INSPECT
 THEIR PERSONNEL FILE PURSUANT TO A COLLECTIVE BARGAINING  AGREEMENT,  OR
 OTHER LAW.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09569-01-5

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