STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 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