Bill Text: NY S07431 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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: (Passed) 2018-04-18 - SIGNED CHAP.47 [S07431 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S07431-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7431
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 18, 2018
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  MURPHY -- 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  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    §  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.
                                                                   LBD06071-01-7