Bill Text: NY S00088 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires each industrial development agency to live stream and post video recordings of all open meetings and public hearings; requires each industrial development agency to post such recordings for a period of not less than five years.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-08-27 - signed chap.185 [S00088 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S00088-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           88
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
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        Introduced  by Sen. KAMINSKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
        AN ACT to amend the general municipal law  and  the  public  authorities
          law,  in  relation  to requiring each industrial development agency to
          live stream all  open  meetings  and  public  hearings  and  make  the
          recordings  of  such meetings and hearings available on the webpage of
          the industrial development agency
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The  general  municipal  law  is  amended by adding a new
     2  section 857 to read as follows:
     3    § 857. Video recordings of open meetings and  public  hearings.    The
     4  agency  shall,  to  the extent practicable, stream all open meetings and
     5  public hearings on its website in real-time. The agency shall post video
     6  recordings of all open meetings and public hearings on its website with-
     7  in five business days of the meeting or hearing and shall maintain  such
     8  recordings for a period of not less than five years.
     9    §  2.  The  public  authorities law is amended by adding a new section
    10  1952-a to read as follows:
    11    § 1952-a. Video recordings of open meetings and public hearings.   The
    12  authority shall, to the extent practicable, stream all open meetings and
    13  public  hearings  on  its website in real-time. The authority shall post
    14  video recordings of all open meetings and public hearings on its website
    15  within five business days of the meeting or hearing and  shall  maintain
    16  such recordings for a period of not less than five years.
    17    §  3.  The  public  authorities law is amended by adding a new section
    18  2305 to read as follows:
    19    § 2305. Video recordings of open meetings and public  hearings.    The
    20  authority shall, to the extent practicable, stream all open meetings and
    21  public  hearings  on  its website in real-time. The authority shall post
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03460-01-9
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     1  video recordings of all open meetings and public hearings on its website
     2  within five business days of the meeting or hearing and  shall  maintain
     3  such recordings for a period of not less than five years.
     4    §  4. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
     5  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.