Bill Text: NY S02899 | 2011-2012 | 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; relates to confidentiality of certain information in such reports.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-06-21 - SUBSTITUTED BY A7822A [S02899 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S02899-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        2899--A
           Cal. No. 332
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   February 3, 2011
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       Introduced  by  Sens.  DeFRANCISCO,  GRIFFO,  JOHNSON,  LARKIN, MAZIARZ,
         RANZENHOFER -- 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 -- reported favor-
         ably from said committee, ordered to first and second report,  ordered
         to  a  third  reading, passed by Senate and delivered to the Assembly,
         recalled, vote reconsidered, restored to third  reading,  amended  and
         ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading
       AN ACT to amend the New York state printing and public documents 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 524 of the laws of 2005,
    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 [either]:
   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; [or] IF SUCH REPORT CONTAINS CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION OR IS PROVIDED
   14  WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT FURTHER DISCLOSURE OF CERTAIN INFORMATION IN
   15  SUCH  REPORTS  IS PROHIBITED, PROVIDED THAT, SUCH REPORT SHALL BE POSTED
   16  TO THE AGENCY'S WEBSITE WITH ALL SUCH CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION REDACTED;
   17  OR
   18    (ii) making such document available  on  its  website  and  sending  a
   19  printed  letter  or  notice to each member of the legislature, or to the
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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       S. 2899--A                          2
    1  specified legislative officers or chairpersons,  as  the  case  may  be,
    2  indicating the availability of such report on the agency's website.
    3    (b)  Such  letter  or  notice  shall  include the name of the specific
    4  report, the specific web address at which the report can be accessed  or
    5  instructions on how to access the report from the agency's homepage, and
    6  the  name  of  the person at the state agency to whom the legislator may
    7  direct a request to obtain a printed copy of the report, free of charge,
    8  if so desired.
    9    S 2.  This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after  it  shall
   10  have become a law.