Bill Text: NY S07776 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires public retirement systems to post board meeting minutes on their websites to the extent practicable or otherwise required by law.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-06-06 - referred to governmental employees [S07776 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S07776-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7776 IN SENATE February 22, 2018 ___________ Introduced by Sen. BENJAMIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions AN ACT to amend the retirement and social security law, the education law, and the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring boards of trustees of public retirement systems to post board meeting minutes on their websites The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The retirement and social security law is amended by adding 2 a new section 805-a to read as follows: 3 § 805-a. Minutes of public retirement system board meetings. It shall 4 be the policy of the boards of trustees of all public retirement systems 5 to make a copy of minutes of any official meeting, subject to the 6 provisions of article seven of the public officers law, electronically 7 available on such public retirement system's website to the extent prac- 8 ticable or otherwise required by law. 9 § 2. The education law is amended by adding a new section 506-a to 10 read as follows: 11 § 506-a. Board meetings; minutes and records. The board shall keep 12 minutes of its own proceedings and records of its other official 13 actions, and shall make a copy of such minutes electronically available 14 on its website to the extent practicable, provided that any information 15 deemed confidential or subject to the exceptions provided for in article 16 seven of the public officers law may be redacted or omitted from such 17 public postings. 18 § 3. Section 13-103 of the administrative code of the city of New York 19 is amended by adding a new subdivision h to read as follows: 20 h. The board shall keep minutes of its own proceedings and records of 21 its other official actions, and shall make a copy of such minutes elec- 22 tronically available on its website to the extent practicable, provided 23 that any information deemed confidential or subject to the exceptions 24 provided for in article seven of the public officers law may be redacted 25 or omitted from such public postings. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD14843-01-8S. 7776 2 1 § 4. Section 13-202 of the administrative code of the city of New York 2 is amended by adding a new subdivision h to read as follows: 3 h. The board shall keep minutes of its own proceedings and records of 4 its other official actions, and shall make a copy of such minutes elec- 5 tronically available on its website to the extent practicable, provided 6 that any information deemed confidential or subject to the exceptions 7 provided for in article seven of the public officers law may be redacted 8 or omitted from such public postings. 9 § 5. Section 13-302 of the administrative code of the city of New York 10 is amended by adding a new subdivision h to read as follows: 11 h. The board shall keep minutes of its own proceedings and records of 12 its other official actions, and shall make a copy of such minutes elec- 13 tronically available on its website to the extent practicable, provided 14 that any information deemed confidential or subject to the exceptions 15 provided for in article seven of the public officers law may be redacted 16 or omitted from such public postings. 17 § 6. Section 13-516 of the administrative code of the city of New York 18 is amended to read as follows: 19 § 13-516 Retirement board; minutes and records. The retirement board 20 shall keep [a record] minutes and records of all its proceedings and its 21 other official actions open to public inspection and shall make a copy 22 of such minutes electronically available on its website to the extent 23 practicable, provided that any information deemed confidential or 24 subject to the exceptions provided for in article seven of the public 25 officers law may be redacted or omitted from such public postings. 26 § 7. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 27 have become a law.
