Bill Text: NY S05076 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires timely disclosure of requested records and makes the willful failure to make timely disclosure of public records pursuant to the provisions of the freedom of information law subject to a civil penalty in an amount not to exceed one thousand dollars.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-09 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO CODES [S05076 Detail]
Download: New_York-2009-S05076-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 5076 2009-2010 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E April 27, 2009 ___________ Introduced by Sen. KLEIN -- 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 willful failure to make timely disclosure of a public record THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Section 89 of the public officers law is amended by adding 2 a new subdivision 10 to read as follows: 3 10. ANY OFFICER OR EMPLOYEE OF A STATE AGENCY CHARGED WITH THE DISCLO- 4 SURE OF ANY RECORD IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THIS ARTICLE 5 SHALL MAKE SUCH DISCLOSURE WITHIN THE TIME PERIODS PROVIDED IN THIS 6 SECTION. ANY AGENCY WHICH EMPLOYS A PERSON WHO HAS WILLFULLY FAILED TO 7 MAKE TIMELY DISCLOSURE OF SUCH RECORD SHALL BE SUBJECT TO A CIVIL PENAL- 8 TY IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS. 9 S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 10 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD08594-01-9