Bill Text: NY A10276 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides for a quorum of one quarter of the members and the presiding officer of a community board physically be present at a location where the public can attend for such board to conduct videoconferencing.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-16 - print number 10276a [A10276 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A10276-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                        10276--A

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 16, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Bores) --
          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 public officers law, in relation to lowering  quorum
          requirements  for meetings of community boards held by videoconferenc-
          ing

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

     1    Section  1. The opening paragraph of subdivision 2 of section 103-a of
     2  the public officers law, as added by section 2 of part WW of chapter  56
     3  of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
     4    A public body may, in its discretion, use videoconferencing to conduct
     5  its  meetings pursuant to the requirements of this article provided that
     6  a minimum number of members are present to  fulfill  the  public  body's
     7  quorum  requirement in the same physical location or locations where the
     8  public can attend, except that in the case  of  an  advisory  body,  one
     9  quarter  of the members and the relevant presiding officer must be pres-
    10  ent in such physical location or locations, and the  following  criteria
    11  are met:
    12    §  2.  Section 103-a of the public officers law is amended by adding a
    13  new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
    14    6. For the purposes of this  section,  an  "advisory  body"  shall  be
    15  defined  as  an  entity  that  is involved in an advisory capacity only;
    16  including but not limited to engagement in policy  development,  program
    17  planning, and program evaluation, and that may or may not vote to deter-
    18  mine  a  final policy or programmatic outcome, including but not limited
    19  to a community board in a city with a population of one million or more.
    20    § 3.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however,  that
    21  the  amendments  to  section  103-a  of  the public officers law made by
    22  sections one and two of this act shall not affect  the  repeal  of  such
    23  section and shall be deemed repealed therewith.

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