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

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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]

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          798
                              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
       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 added 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 EIGHTEEN 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
   22  CASE MAY BE, INDICATING THE AVAILABILITY OF SUCH REPORT ON THIS WEBSITE;
   23  AND BY
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD00276-01-3
       S. 798                              2
    1    (ii) making such document available  on  its  website  and  sending  a
    2  printed  letter  or  notice to each member of the legislature, or to the
    3  specified legislative officers or chairpersons,  as  the  case  may  be,
    4  indicating the availability of such report on the agency's website.
    5    (b)  Such  letter  or  notice  shall  include the name of the specific
    6  report, the specific web address at which the report can be accessed  or
    7  instructions on how to access the report from the agency's homepage, and
    8  the  name  of  the person at the state agency to whom the legislator may
    9  direct a request to obtain a printed copy of the report, free of charge,
   10  if so desired.
   11    S 2. Section 103 of the state technology law is amended  by  adding  a
   12  new subdivision 18 to read as follows:
   13    18.  TO  ESTABLISH,  ADMINISTER  AND  MAINTAIN A NEW YORK STATE AGENCY
   14  DOCUMENTS WEBSITE WHICH WILL INCLUDE POSTINGS OF ALL REPORTS  ISSUED  BY
   15  STATE  AGENCIES,  DEPARTMENTS, PUBLIC AUTHORITIES, PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPO-
   16  RATIONS OR ENTITIES WHENEVER STATE LAW REQUIRES A STATE AGENCY TO  MAKE,
   17  ISSUE,  SUBMIT, DELIVER, DISTRIBUTE OR FORWARD A REPORT TO THE "LEGISLA-
   18  TURE" OR TO "MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATURE"  OR  TO  "BOTH  HOUSES  OF  THE
   19  LEGISLATURE",  OR TO ANY PARTICULAR LEGISLATIVE OFFICERS OR CHAIRPERSONS
   20  OF LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEES, SUBCOMMITTEES OR COMMISSIONS. IT SHALL BE THE
   21  RESPONSIBILITY OF THE NEW YORK STATE AGENCY DOCUMENTS WEBSITE  TO  SERVE
   22  AS THE CENTRAL REPOSITORY FOR THE POSTING AND ARCHIVING OF ALL DOCUMENTS
   23  PROVIDED TO THE LEGISLATURE AS REQUIRED BY STATE LAW.
   24    S 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
   25  it shall have become a law.