Bill Text: NY S05010 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides that each state agency that maintains a website shall ensure its website provides for online submission of requests for records subject to FOIL.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S05010 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S05010-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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5010
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
April 28, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. MARCELLINO -- 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 allowing the
public to submit requests for access to the records of a state agency
by use of an online form
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 89 of the public officers law is
2 amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
3 (C) EACH STATE AGENCY AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION FIVE OF THIS SECTION
4 THAT MAINTAINS A WEBSITE SHALL ENSURE ITS WEBSITE PROVIDES FOR THE
5 ONLINE SUBMISSION OF A REQUEST FOR RECORDS PURSUANT TO THIS ARTICLE.
6 S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
7 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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