Bill Text: NY A00400 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 400 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Provides for a freedom of information law exception to public disclosure of records if disclosure would endanger the health or safety of persons unless the benefits of disclosure outweigh the need for secrecy.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to governmental operations [A00400 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A00400-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           400
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. CAHILL -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Operations
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public  officers law, in relation to freedom of
          information law exempting disclosure when danger to life or safety  of
          a person may result
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph (f) of subdivision 2 of section 87 of the  public
     2  officers  law, as amended by chapter 403 of the laws of 2003, is amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    (f) if disclosed could endanger the life  or  safety  of  any  person,
     5  unless the benefits of disclosure outweigh the need for secrecy;
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01966-01-9