Bill Text: NY S04475 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires public bodies to post video recordings of open meetings on their websites within five days of such meetings; requires such recordings be maintained for a period of five years.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S04475 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S04475-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4475

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 9, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. ADDABBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
          ment Operations

        AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to requiring public
          bodies to post video recordings of open meetings

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

     1    Section  1. Subdivision (f) of section 103 of the public officers law,
     2  as amended by chapter 319 of the laws of 2016, is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    (f)  Open meetings of [an agency or authority] a public body shall be,
     5  to the extent practicable and within available funds, broadcast  to  the
     6  public  and  maintained  as  records of the [agency or authority] public
     7  body. If the [agency or authority] public body maintains a  website  and
     8  utilizes  a  high speed internet connection, such open meeting shall be,
     9  to the extent practicable and within available  funds,  streamed  on  or
    10  available through such website in real-time, and video recording of such
    11  open  meeting  shall be posted on such website within five business days
    12  of the meeting and for a reasonable time  after  the  meeting  and  such
    13  recordings shall be maintained for a period of not less than five years.
    14  [For the purposes of this subdivision, the term "agency" shall mean only
    15  a  state  department, board, bureau, division, council or office and any
    16  public corporation the majority of whose members are  appointed  by  the
    17  governor.  For  purposes of this subdivision, the term "authority" shall
    18  mean a public authority or public  benefit  corporation  created  by  or
    19  existing under any state law, at least one of whose members is appointed
    20  by  the governor (including any subsidiaries of such public authority or
    21  public benefit corporation), other than an interstate  or  international
    22  authority or public benefit corporation.]
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05312-01-3