Bill Text: NY S01854 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
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Bill Title: Requires the state power authority and the Long Island power authority to webcast all public meetings, record such meetings and make them accessible from the website for at least one year.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-20 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S01854 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S01854-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Requires the state power authority and the Long Island power authority to webcast all public meetings, record such meetings and make them accessible from the website for at least one year.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-20 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S01854 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S01854-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1854 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 11, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. CROCI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommuni- cations AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to webcasting of public meetings The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 1002 of the public authorities law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision 3 to read as follows: 3 3. The authority shall webcast all public meetings on the official 4 website maintained by the authority. All meetings shall be recorded and 5 shall be made accessible from the official website maintained by the 6 authority for a period of at least one year. After one year, the author- 7 ity may archive the recording, but must retain a copy of the meeting 8 that shall be made available to the public upon request. 9 § 2. Section 1020-c of the public authorities law, as added by chapter 10 517 of the laws of 1986, is amended by adding a new subdivision 4 to 11 read as follows: 12 4. The Long Island power authority shall webcast all public meetings 13 on the official website maintained by the authority. All meetings shall 14 be recorded and shall be made accessible from the official website main- 15 tained by the authority for a period of at least one year. After one 16 year, the authority may archive the recording, but must retain a copy of 17 the meeting that shall be made available to the public upon request. 18 § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 19 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03975-01-7