Bill Text: NY S02659 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates an internet website to discuss and introduce issues and ideas to the government of this state and to provide for the creation, viewing and signing of petitions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO FINANCE [S02659 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2659
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 17, 2017
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        Introduced  by Sen. HAMILTON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to  the  creation  of  an
          internet  website  to  discuss  and  introduce issues and ideas to the
          government of this state and to provide for the creation, viewing  and
          signing of petitions
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new  section  31-a
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  31-a. The People of the State of New York; internet website. 1. The
     4  department shall, in consultation with the office of  information  tech-
     5  nology  services,  develop  and  maintain  an  internet  website for the
     6  purpose of providing the people of this state with  the  opportunity  to
     7  voice  opinions,  create  and  sign petitions, and otherwise discuss and
     8  introduce issues and ideas to the government of this state. Such  inter-
     9  net  website  shall  be called "The People of the State of New York" and
    10  shall use as its model the "We the People" internet website  implemented
    11  and  maintained  by the executive branch of the federal government. Such
    12  internet website shall provide:
    13    a. a platform for the people of this state to create, view, respond to
    14  and sign petitions;
    15    b. a blog maintained by the executive;
    16    c. responses to petitions pursuant to subdivision two of this section;
    17  and
    18    d. any additional information the executive deems relevant.
    19    2. Upon the creation of a petition on the internet  website  developed
    20  and  maintained  pursuant to subdivision one of this section, any person
    21  in this state may sign such petition as a method of  demonstrating  such
    22  person's  agreement with the content of such petition. Any petition that
    23  receives two thousand five hundred or more signatures shall be  provided
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00708-01-7
        S. 2659                             2
     1  with  a  response  on or before the sixtieth day after such total of two
     2  thousand five hundred signatures was reached. Such response shall be:
     3    a.  made  by  the executive, or by any state agency that the executive
     4  designates to provide such response;
     5    b. made in writing;
     6    c. posted on the The People of the State of New York internet website.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
     8  have  become  a  law, provided, however, that effective immediately, the
     9  addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule  or  regulation  necessary
    10  for  the  implementation of this act on its effective date is authorized
    11  to be made and completed on or before such date.