Bill Text: NY A06972 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires state agency websites to be mobile friendly.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-06-08 - substituted by s5410 [A06972 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06972-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          6972

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 9, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. OTIS -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the state technology law, in relation  to  state  agency
          websites

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

     1    Section 1. The state technology law is amended by adding a new section
     2  210 to read as follows:
     3    § 210. State agency websites;  mobile  friendly  websites.  All  state
     4  agency  websites, as defined in section two hundred two of this article,
     5  shall offer a mobile friendly form and shall be made available  for  all
     6  mobile  devices  that support such technology.  For the purposes of this
     7  section, "mobile friendly" shall mean, with respect to a  website,  that
     8  such  website is configured in such a way that such website may be navi-
     9  gated, viewed and accessed on a smartphone, tablet computer, or  similar
    10  mobile device.
    11    §  2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
    12  law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09848-01-3