STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8453--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    November 17, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. SIMON, DINOWITZ, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, MAMDANI, DICK-
          ENS, GOTTFRIED, MITAYNES, ZINERMAN, GALEF, SALKA -- Multi-Sponsored by
          -- M. of A.   DeSTEFANO,  ENGLEBRIGHT,  FORREST,  OTIS,  SANTABARBARA,
          SEAWRIGHT, SMITH, TAYLOR -- read once and referred to the Committee on
          Governmental  Operations  --  recommitted  to the Committee on Govern-
          mental Operations in accordance  with  Assembly  Rule  3,  sec.  2  --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the executive law  and  the  state  technology  law,  in
          relation to requiring state contractors and vendors to comply with the
          Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

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

     1    Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section  170-f
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  170-f.  Website  accessibility;  contractors  and  vendors.    Each
     4  contractor, subcontractor, vendor, consultant, or other person providing
     5  services pursuant to a state contract shall be required to  conform  any
     6  website  provided by such contractor, subcontractor, vendor, consultant,
     7  or person in relation to and for the purpose of the  provision  of  such
     8  services  to  the  most current version of the Web Content Accessibility
     9  Guidelines adopted by the World Wide Web Consortium  for  accessibility,
    10  or any successor standards.
    11    § 2. Subdivisions 20 and 21 of section 103 of the state technology law
    12  are renumbered subdivisions 21 and 22, and a new subdivision 20 is added
    13  to read as follows:
    14    20.  To  issue  guidance  for  contractors,  subcontractors,  vendors,
    15  consultants, or other persons in their compliance with the  Web  Content
    16  Accessibility Guidelines required pursuant to section one hundred seven-
    17  ty-f of the executive law.
    18    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    19  it shall have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13040-02-2