Bill Text: NY A03468 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Provides for the disposal of certain information or data maintained by agencies of government including electronic records.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to governmental operations [A03468 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A03468-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3468
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 29, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Governmental Operations
        AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to the disposal  of
          certain information or data maintained by agencies of government
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 86 of the public officers law is amended by  adding
     2  three new subdivisions 6, 7 and 8 to read as follows:
     3    6.  "Data  base" means a set of data, consisting of more than one data
     4  file, that is collected and stored for a given purpose.
     5    7. "Data file" means an electronic record consisting of related numer-
     6  ic, textual or graphic information  that  is  organized  in  a  strictly
     7  prescribed form and format.
     8    8.  "Electronic record" means any record that is stored, processed and
     9  used by means of a computer.
    10    § 2. Subparagraph iii of paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section  87
    11  of  the  public  officers  law, as amended by chapter 223 of the laws of
    12  2008, is amended to read as follows:
    13    iii. the fees for copies of records which shall not exceed twenty-five
    14  cents per photocopy not in excess of nine inches by fourteen inches,  or
    15  the  actual  cost of reproducing any other record in accordance with the
    16  provisions of paragraph (c) of this subdivision, except when a different
    17  fee is otherwise prescribed by statute.  With respect to  an  electronic
    18  record,  the  actual  cost of reproduction shall include the cost of the
    19  staff time and computer time required for reproduction and the  cost  of
    20  the  storage device or medium by which such record is transmitted to the
    21  person who has requested it, where such  storage  device  or  medium  is
    22  provided  by  the  agency,  provided  however  that  such actual cost of
    23  reproduction with respect to an electronic record shall not  be  greater
    24  than  the  actual  cost  would be if the records were transmitted by the
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04347-01-9

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     1  agency as photocopies, plus the cost of such storage device or medium if
     2  provided by the agency.
     3    § 3. Subdivision 1 of section 87 of the public officers law is amended
     4  by adding a new paragraph (d) to read as follows:
     5    (d)  Notwithstanding  the provisions of paragraph (b) of this subdivi-
     6  sion, any agency may, pursuant to rule duly promulgated by  such  agency
     7  or  by the governing body of the public corporation of which such agency
     8  is part, provide for the public sale, lease or other disposition of  the
     9  information  or  data  maintained  by  such agency in a data base.  Such
    10  sale, lease or other disposition shall be made on the basis of  a  price
    11  or  schedule  of  prices, set forth in such rule, at which any person or
    12  entity may acquire such information or data. All moneys received  by  an
    13  agency  pursuant  to  this subdivision shall be deposited in the general
    14  fund of the public corporation of which the agency is part.
    15    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
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