Bill Text: NY S01434 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 1434 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires that each meeting of the Board of Regents be streamed live and be made available to the public.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S01434 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S01434-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          1434
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     January 9, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sens.  RITCHIE, BONACIC, HANNON, MARCHIONE, RANZENHOFER,
          SERINO, SEWARD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed  to
          be committed to the Committee on Education
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education  law, in relation to providing a live
          webcast for meetings of the board of regents
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 204-a
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 204-a. Webcasting meetings. 1.  The entirety of each meeting of  the
     4  regents shall be live webcast and be made available to the public on the
     5  department's website prior to the start of each meeting, and archived on
     6  the department's website, for a period of no less than two years, within
     7  twenty-four  hours  of the adjournment of the last meeting.  The depart-
     8  ment shall provide notice to the public, via the  department's  website,
     9  of  the  availability of the live webcast of such meeting.  The require-
    10  ment to live webcast the entirety of  each  meeting  shall  not  include
    11  executive sessions.
    12    2.  For  the purposes of this section the term "meeting" shall include
    13  any committee, subcommittee, and to the extent practicable,  task  force
    14  or subgroup of the regents.
    15    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    16  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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