Bill Text: NY S07404 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires public bodies to make reasonable efforts to ensure that proceedings of meetings are audible for individuals in person and via broadcast and to provide audio visual equipment as necessary.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S07404 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S07404-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7404 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE September 29, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sen. KAPLAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to requiring public bodies to ensure that proceedings of meetings are audible for individ- uals in person and via broadcast 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) Public bodies shall make or cause to be made reasonable efforts to 4 ensure that proceedings of meetings are audible to those individuals who 5 attend such meetings in person or via broadcast by providing audiovisual 6 equipment, including but not limited to microphones and speakers to 7 ensure that individuals in attendance as well as individuals watching 8 via broadcast can adequately hear the proceedings of the meeting. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13137-02-1
