Bill Text: NY A01233 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes broadcasting of open meetings of an agency or department; relates to real-time streaming on such agency's website.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)

Status: (Passed) 2015-12-11 - signed chap.519 [A01233 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A01233-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        1233--A
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    January 8, 2015
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       Introduced  by  M.  of A. PAULIN, GALEF, KIM, ROSENTHAL, CRESPO, KEARNS,
         BARRETT, STECK -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.  of  A.  GOTTFRIED,  PERRY,
         THIELE  --  read  once  and  referred to the Committee on Governmental
         Operations -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
         amended and recommitted to said committee
       AN ACT to amend the public officers law,  in  relation  to  broadcasting
         open meetings of an agency or department
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 103 of the public officers law is amended by adding
    2  a new subdivision (f) to read as follows:
    3    (F) OPEN MEETINGS OF AN AGENCY SHALL BE, TO THE EXTENT PRACTICABLE AND
    4  WITHIN AVAILABLE FUNDS,  BROADCAST  TO  THE  PUBLIC  AND  MAINTAINED  AS
    5  RECORDS  OF THE AGENCY. IF THE AGENCY MAINTAINS A WEBSITE AND UTILIZES A
    6  HIGH SPEED INTERNET CONNECTION, SUCH  OPEN  MEETING  SHALL  BE,  TO  THE
    7  EXTENT  PRACTICABLE AND WITHIN AVAILABLE FUNDS, STREAMED ON SUCH WEBSITE
    8  IN REAL-TIME, AND POSTED ON SUCH WEBSITE WITHIN  AND  FOR  A  REASONABLE
    9  TIME  AFTER  THE MEETING. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION, THE TERM
   10  "AGENCY" SHALL MEAN ONLY A STATE DEPARTMENT,  BOARD,  BUREAU,  DIVISION,
   11  COUNCIL  OR  OFFICE  AND  ANY  PUBLIC  CORPORATION THE MAJORITY OF WHOSE
   12  MEMBERS ARE APPOINTED BY THE GOVERNOR.
   13    S 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
   14  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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