Bill Text: NY S08509 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 8509 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Requires agencies and public employers to provide notice and a review period to employees whose personnel records have been provided pursuant to the state's freedom of information law.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-03-20 - PRINT NUMBER 8509A [S08509 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08509-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         8509--A

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 7, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
          ment  Operations  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,   ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the public officers law, in relation to requests for
          employee personnel records

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. Section 87 of the public officers law is amended by adding
     2  a new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
     3    6. (a) Every agency or public employer shall provide written notifica-
     4  tion to an employee that a  request  for  information  pursuant  to  the
     5  provisions of this article seeking such employee's personnel records has
     6  been  approved.  The  notification  shall  list any documents requested,
     7  provided, or copied for dissemination or public inspection.
     8    (b) Upon official notification from the employer that  a  request  for
     9  information  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of this article seeking such
    10  employee's personnel records has been approved, such employee  shall  be
    11  given  the ability to inspect their personnel file or any other document
    12  referencing the employee  as  part  of  the  information  request.  This
    13  section  shall  not  be  a restriction to an employee's right to inspect
    14  their personnel file pursuant to a collective bargaining  agreement,  or
    15  other law.
    16    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    17  have become a law.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14454-03-4