Bill Text: NY A05403 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to conducting business by electronic means during a state disaster emergency; requires public bodies to provide notice to the general public.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to governmental operations [A05403 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A05403-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5403

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 16, 2021
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        Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to conducting busi-
          ness  by  electronic  means  during  a  state  disaster emergency; and
          providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof

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

     1    Section 1. Section 103 of the public officers law is amended by adding
     2  a new subdivision (g) to read as follows:
     3    (g) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, during
     4  a  state  disaster emergency, as defined in section twenty of the execu-
     5  tive law, a public body in the  affected  area  may  utilize  electronic
     6  means  to  conduct business pursuant to this section.  In utilizing such
     7  electronic means, the public body shall promptly provide notice  to  the
     8  general  public  pursuant  to  section  one hundred four of this article
     9  detailing how failure to utilize electronic means would unduly  threaten
    10  the  health  or  safety  of  members  of  the public body or the general
    11  public, and provide a description of alternate means by which the public
    12  can monitor, watch, listen to, participate in, and/or attend  the  meet-
    13  ing.
    14    §  2.  This  act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
    15  deemed repealed December 31, 2022.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03807-02-1