Bill Text: NY S04704 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires that minutes taken at a meeting of a public body be posted on the agency's website within two weeks from an open meeting and one week from an executive session.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-06-09 - SUBSTITUTED BY A1108A [S04704 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S04704-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4704--A Cal. No. 473 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 9, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sen. KAPLAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern- ment Operations -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second report, ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to requiring that minutes of meetings of a public body be posted on its website The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 106 of the public officers law, as 2 amended by chapter 704 of the laws of 1979, such section as renumbered 3 by chapter 652 of the laws of 1983, is amended to read as follows: 4 3. Minutes of meetings of all public bodies shall be available to the 5 public in accordance with the provisions of the freedom of information 6 law within two weeks from the date of such meeting except that minutes 7 taken pursuant to subdivision two [hereof] of this section shall be 8 available to the public within one week from the date of the executive 9 session. If the agency in which a public body functions maintains a 10 regularly and routinely updated website and utilizes a high speed inter- 11 net connection, such minutes shall be posted on the website within two 12 weeks from the date of such meeting except that minutes taken pursuant 13 to subdivision two of this section shall be available to the public 14 within one week from the date of the executive session. For purposes of 15 this subdivision unabridged video recordings or unabridged audio 16 recordings or unabridged written transcripts may be deemed to be meeting 17 minutes. Nothing in this section shall require the creation of minutes 18 if the public body would not otherwise take them. 19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06235-09-1
