Bill Text: NY A08108 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that a public body of a municipal corporation may conduct a meeting via video conference if the public body: provides an opportunity for the public to contemporaneously view and listen to such meeting online, makes a video recording of the meeting and posts the recording on the public body's website within five business days of the meeting; makes related provisions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to governmental operations [A08108 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A08108-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8108

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 11, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. THIELE, KELLES -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to conducting meet-
          ings of public bodies via video conference technology  or  via  simul-
          taneous video conference and in-person

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (c) of section 103 of the public officers law, as
     2  added by chapter 289 of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as follows:
     3    (c) (i) A public body that uses videoconferencing to conduct its meet-
     4  ings shall provide an opportunity for the public to attend,  listen  and
     5  observe at any site at which a member participates.
     6    (ii)  In  the alternative, a public body of a municipal corporation as
     7  defined in section sixty-six of the general construction law may conduct
     8  a meeting via video conference or via simultaneous video conference  and
     9  in-person if the public body: (1) provides an opportunity for the public
    10  to contemporaneously view and listen to such meeting online; (2) makes a
    11  video  recording  of  the  meeting;  and  (3) posts the recording on the
    12  public body's website within five business days  of  the  meeting.    In
    13  addition,  upon  request of a member of the public, the public body must
    14  make available a specific location within the jurisdiction of the munic-
    15  ipal corporation for the public to  view  and  listen  to  such  meeting
    16  online,  provided  the  request  is  received at least forty-eight hours
    17  prior to the time the meeting is scheduled to begin.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11481-02-1