Bill Text: NY S00539 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S00539 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S00539-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           539

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  KAPLAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
          ment Operations

        AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation  to  requiring  all
          local governments to live stream open meetings and public hearings and
          make  the  recordings  of  such meetings and hearings available on the
          webpage of the local government

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

     1    Section 1. Section 104 of the public officers law is amended by adding
     2  a new subdivision 5-a to read as follows:
     3    5-a.  Local  governments shall be required, to the extent practicable,
     4  to stream all open meetings and public hearings on its website in  real-
     5  time. Each local government shall post video recordings of all such open
     6  meetings and public hearings on its website within five business days of
     7  the  meeting  or hearing and shall maintain such recordings for a period
     8  of not less than five years.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    10  it shall have become a law.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04864-01-1