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
