Bill Text: NY A00266 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires state agencies to conform any of their websites to the most current version of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines adopted by the World Wide Web Consortium for accessibility; requires the office of information technology services to provide a report to the governor and legislature every two years.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-2)

Status: (Passed) 2023-12-22 - approval memo.60 [A00266 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00266-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         266--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 4, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. BURDICK -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Governmental Operations -- committee discharged, bill  amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the state technology law, in relation to requiring state
          agencies  to conform any of their websites to the most current version
          of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines  adopted by the World Wide
          Web Consortium for accessibility

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The state technology law is amended by adding a new section
     2  103-b to read as follows:
     3    §  103-b. Website accessibility; state agencies. 1.  Each state agency
     4  shall be required to conform any of their websites to the  most  current
     5  version of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines adopted by the World
     6  Wide Web Consortium for accessibility, or any successor standards.  This
     7  section shall not require an agency to take any action that would result
     8  in  a  fundamental  alteration  in  the nature of a service, program, or
     9  activity.
    10    2. No later than December thirty-first, two thousand twenty-three, and
    11  every two years thereafter, the office  designee  shall  submit  to  the
    12  governor and the legislature a written report that documents the compli-
    13  ance  of  websites maintained by or on behalf of state agencies or state
    14  entities with the protocol adopted pursuant to subdivision one  of  this
    15  section.
    16    § 2. Subdivisions 20, 21, and 22 of section 103 of the state technolo-
    17  gy  law, subdivisions 21 and 22 as renumbered by chapter 658 of the laws
    18  of 2022, are renumbered subdivisions 21, 22, and 23, and a new  subdivi-
    19  sion 20 is added to read as follows:
    20    20.  To issue guidance for state agencies in their compliance with the
    21  Web Content Accessibility Guidelines required pursuant  to  section  one
    22  hundred three-b of the state technology law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01135-02-3
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     1    §  3.    This  act  shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day
     2  after it shall have become a law; provided that section two of this  act
     3  shall take effect on the same date and in the same manner as chapter 658
     4  of the laws of 2022 takes effect.