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

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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--A
                              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  --  committee  discharged, bill amended,
         ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
       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.  SUCH LISTING SHALL ALSO INCLUDE CORRESPONDENCE FROM THE GOVER-
   12  NOR RELATING TO LEGISLATION, SUCH AS MESSAGES OF NECESSITY AND  VETO  OR
   13  APPROVAL MEMOS.
   14    2.  EVERY  COMMITTEE  MEETING AND HEARING OF THE LEGISLATURE AND EVERY
   15  SESSION SHALL BE LIVE WEBCAST AND ARCHIVED THROUGH THE OFFICIAL  WEBSITE
   16  OF EACH RESPECTIVE HOUSE TO THE EXTENT PRACTICABLE.
   17    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
   18  it  shall  have  become a law; provided, however, that the obligation to
   19  archive webcasts of committee meetings, hearings  and  sessions  of  the
   20  legislature  as  provided in section one of this act shall only apply to
   21  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.
                                                                  LBD04631-02-5