Bill Text: NY A01887 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 1887 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Requires that committee and floor votes be made available online and that session and committee meetings be webcast; listing shall include correspondence from the governor relating to legislation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-18 - print number 1887b [A01887 Detail]

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         1887
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 13, 2015
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       Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Governmental Operations
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the  legislative  law, in relation to requiring that
         committee and floor votes be made available online  and  that  session
         and committee meetings be live webcast and archived
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The legislative law is amended by adding a new section 54-c
    2  to read as follows:
    3    S 54-C. COMMITTEE AND FLOOR VOTES AND COMMITTEE MEETINGS TO BE  POSTED
    4  ONLINE.  1.  ALL  VOTES  TAKEN ON THE FLOOR OF THE SENATE OR ASSEMBLY OR
    5  VOTES TAKEN IN ANY COMMITTEE OF THE LEGISLATURE SHALL BE LISTED  ON  THE
    6  OFFICIAL  WEBSITE  OF  THE RESPECTIVE HOUSES WITHIN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS OF
    7  SUCH VOTE, TO THE EXTENT PRACTICABLE.   SUCH LISTING SHALL  INCLUDE  THE
    8  BILL  NUMBER,  DATE  OF  VOTE,  THE  SUMMARY OF THE LEGISLATION FROM THE
    9  LEGISLATIVE RETRIEVAL SYSTEM, WHETHER SUCH VOTE WAS ON THE FLOOR OR IN A
   10  COMMITTEE AND EACH MEMBER'S VOTE LISTED AS AYE, NAY, EXCUSED, ABSENT  OR
   11  ABSTAIN.
   12    2.  EVERY  COMMITTEE  MEETING AND HEARING OF THE LEGISLATURE AND EVERY
   13  SESSION SHALL BE LIVE WEBCAST AND ARCHIVED THROUGH THE OFFICIAL  WEBSITE
   14  OF EACH RESPECTIVE HOUSE TO THE EXTENT PRACTICABLE.
   15    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
   16  it  shall  have  become a law; provided, however, that the obligation to
   17  archive webcasts of committee meetings, hearings  and  sessions  of  the
   18  legislature  as  provided in section one of this act shall only apply to
   19  webcasts occurring on or after the effective date of this act.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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