Bill Text: NY A10261 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Enacts the "online digital paperwork reduction act"; makes every state agency reports, digests and records available on their respective websites.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 19-9)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-06 - reported referred to rules [A10261 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A10261-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                        10261--A
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     March 27, 2018
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. GALEF, ENGLEBRIGHT, D'URSO, BARRON, McDONALD,
          DINOWITZ, VANEL, DICKENS, RIVERA, BYRNE, MORINELLO, LAWRENCE,  CROUCH,
          BLANKENBUSH, B. MILLER, JAFFEE, D. ROSENTHAL, HYNDMAN, ARROYO, ERRIGO,
          BLAKE,  OAKS,  HUNTER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. HIKIND, MAGEE,
          PALMESANO, THIELE -- read  once  and  referred  to  the  Committee  on
          Governmental Operations -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT  to amend the executive law, in relation to enacting the "online
          digital paperwork reduction act"
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
     2  the "online digital paperwork reduction act".
     3    § 2. The executive law is amended by adding a  new  section  170-c  to
     4  read as follows:
     5    §  170-c.   Availability of documents. Every state agency in the state
     6  shall make its annual reports and all other public  documents  available
     7  in  a digital format on its website in a manner that allows such reports
     8  and documents to be printed. As used in this section,  the  term  "state
     9  agency"  shall mean any department, board, bureau, commission, division,
    10  office, council, committee or office of  the  state,  a  public  benefit
    11  corporation or public authority.
    12    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    13  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06352-04-8