Bill Text: NY A04591 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Requires state agencies to make available all public documents in a digital format on their website in a manner that allows such documents to be printed; provides that no document required by law to remain confidential shall be deemed a public document.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-03-25 - REFERRED TO FINANCE [A04591 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04591-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         4591--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 17, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee  on Governmental Operations -- committee discharged, bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the New York state printing and public documents law, in
          relation to requiring state agencies  to  make  available  all  public
          documents in a digital format on their website

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

     1    Section 1. Section 12 of the New York state printing and public  docu-
     2  ments law is amended by adding a new subdivision 5 to read as follows:
     3    5.  Each  state  agency shall make all public documents, as defined in
     4  this article, available in a digital format on its website in  a  manner
     5  that  allows such documents to be printed.  Under no circumstances shall
     6  any document that is required by law to remain confidential be deemed  a
     7  public document.
     8    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     9  have become a law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08861-02-3
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