STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           731

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 11, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GUNTHER,  OTIS, BUTTENSCHON -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law,  in  relation  to  providing  a  live
          webcast for meetings of the board of regents

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

     1    Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section  204-a
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  204-a. Webcasting meetings. 1.  The entirety of each meeting of the
     4  regents shall be live webcast and be made available to the public on the
     5  department's website prior to the start of each meeting, and archived on
     6  the department's website, for a period of no less than two years, within
     7  twenty-four hours of the adjournment of the last meeting.   The  depart-
     8  ment  shall  provide notice to the public, via the department's website,
     9  of the availability of the live webcast of such meeting.   The  require-
    10  ment  to  live  webcast  the  entirety of each meeting shall not include
    11  executive sessions.
    12    2. For the purposes of this section the term "meeting"  shall  include
    13  any  committee,  subcommittee, and to the extent practicable, task force
    14  or subgroup of the regents.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    16  have become a law.




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