Bill Text: NY S03424 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to conducting business by electronic means during a state disaster emergency; requires public bodies to provide notice to the general public.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-12 - RECOMMIT, ENACTING CLAUSE STRICKEN [S03424 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S03424-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          3424

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 29, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sens. GAUGHRAN, BORRELLO, HOYLMAN, KRUEGER -- read twice
          and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee
          on Investigations and Government Operations

        AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to conducting busi-
          ness by electronic  means  during  a  state  disaster  emergency;  and
          providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 103 of the public officers law is amended by adding
     2  a new subdivision (g) to read as follows:
     3    (g) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, during
     4  a state disaster emergency, as defined in section twenty of  the  execu-
     5  tive  law,  a  public  body  in the affected area may utilize electronic
     6  means to conduct business pursuant to this section.   In utilizing  such
     7  electronic  means,  the public body shall promptly provide notice to the
     8  general public pursuant to section one  hundred  four  of  this  article
     9  detailing  how failure to utilize electronic means would unduly threaten
    10  the health or safety of members  of  the  public  body  or  the  general
    11  public, and provide a description of alternate means by which the public
    12  can  monitor,  watch, listen to, participate in, and/or attend the meet-
    13  ing.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall  expire  and  be
    15  deemed repealed December 31, 2022.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03807-02-1