Bill Text: NY S00798 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to agency reports; requires such reports to be posted on line; provides for a letter or notice to be sent to members of the legislature indicating the website address and the name of the person at such state agency to whom a legislator may request a printed copy of such report.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-03-28 - PRINT NUMBER 798A [S00798 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S00798-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        798--A
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 9, 2013
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       Introduced  by Sen. SQUADRON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance -- recommitted  to
         the  Committee  on Finance in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
         committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
         recommitted to said committee
       AN ACT to amend the New York state printing and public documents law and
         the state technology law, in relation to agency reports
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 12 of the New York state  printing
    2  and public documents law, as amended by chapter 278 of the laws of 2012,
    3  is amended to read as follows:
    4    4.  (a)  Whenever  state  law  requires a state agency to make, issue,
    5  submit, deliver, distribute or forward a report to the "legislature"  or
    6  to  "members of the legislature" or to "both houses of the legislature,"
    7  or to any particular legislative officers or chairpersons of legislative
    8  committees, subcommittees or commissions, the agency shall satisfy  such
    9  requirement by:
   10    (i) [making, issuing, submitting, delivering, distributing or forward-
   11  ing  a  printed copy of the report to each member of the legislature, or
   12  to the specified legislative officers or chairpersons, as the  case  may
   13  be; if such report contains confidential information or is provided with
   14  the understanding that further disclosure of certain information in such
   15  reports is prohibited, provided that, such report shall be posted to the
   16  agency's  website  with  all such confidential information redacted; or]
   17  MAKING SUCH DOCUMENT AVAILABLE ON THE NEW YORK  STATE  AGENCY  DOCUMENTS
   18  WEBSITE,  AS AUTHORIZED BY SUBDIVISION TWENTY-TWO OF SECTION ONE HUNDRED
   19  THREE OF THE STATE TECHNOLOGY LAW, UNDER THE APPROPRIATE AGENCY'S  HEAD-
   20  ING  AND SENDING A PRINTED LETTER OR NOTICE TO EACH MEMBER OF THE LEGIS-
   21  LATURE, OR TO THE SPECIFIED LEGISLATIVE OFFICERS OR CHAIRPERSONS, AS THE
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD00276-02-4
       S. 798--A                           2
    1  CASE MAY BE, INDICATING THE AVAILABILITY OF SUCH REPORT ON THIS WEBSITE;
    2  AND
    3    (ii)  making  such  document  available  on  its website and sending a
    4  printed letter or notice to each member of the legislature,  or  to  the
    5  specified  legislative  officers  or  chairpersons,  as the case may be,
    6  indicating the availability of such report on the agency's website.
    7    (b) Such letter or notice shall  include  the  name  of  the  specific
    8  report,  the specific web address at which the report can be accessed or
    9  instructions on how to access the report from the agency's homepage, and
   10  the name of the person at the state agency to whom  the  legislator  may
   11  direct a request to obtain a printed copy of the report, free of charge,
   12  if so desired.
   13    S  2.  Section  103 of the state technology law is amended by adding a
   14  new subdivision 22 to read as follows:
   15    22. TO ESTABLISH, ADMINISTER AND MAINTAIN  A  NEW  YORK  STATE  AGENCY
   16  DOCUMENTS  WEBSITE  WHICH WILL INCLUDE POSTINGS OF ALL REPORTS ISSUED BY
   17  STATE AGENCIES, DEPARTMENTS, PUBLIC AUTHORITIES, PUBLIC  BENEFIT  CORPO-
   18  RATIONS  OR ENTITIES WHENEVER STATE LAW REQUIRES A STATE AGENCY TO MAKE,
   19  ISSUE, SUBMIT, DELIVER, DISTRIBUTE OR FORWARD A REPORT TO THE  "LEGISLA-
   20  TURE"  OR  TO  "MEMBERS  OF  THE  LEGISLATURE" OR TO "BOTH HOUSES OF THE
   21  LEGISLATURE", OR TO ANY PARTICULAR LEGISLATIVE OFFICERS OR  CHAIRPERSONS
   22  OF LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEES, SUBCOMMITTEES OR COMMISSIONS. IT SHALL BE THE
   23  RESPONSIBILITY  OF  THE NEW YORK STATE AGENCY DOCUMENTS WEBSITE TO SERVE
   24  AS THE CENTRAL REPOSITORY FOR THE POSTING AND ARCHIVING OF ALL DOCUMENTS
   25  PROVIDED TO THE LEGISLATURE AS REQUIRED BY STATE LAW.
   26    S 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
   27  it shall have become a law.