Senate Bill S1491

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  1491

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            February 2, 2009
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Introduced  by  Sens. DeFRANCISCO, GOLDEN, GRIFFO, MORAHAN -- read twice
  and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee
  on Finance

AN ACT to amend the New York state printing and public documents law and
  the state technology law, in relation to agency reports

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1. Subdivision 4 of section 12 of the New York state printing
and public documents law, as added by chapter 524 of the laws  of  2005,
is amended to read as follows:
  4.  (a)  Whenever  state  law  requires a state agency to make, issue,
submit, deliver, distribute or forward a report to the "legislature"  or
to  "members of the legislature" or to "both houses of the legislature,"
or to any particular legislative officers or chairpersons of legislative
committees, subcommittees or commissions, the agency shall satisfy  such
requirement by [either]:
  (i) [making, issuing, submitting, delivering, distributing or forward-
ing  a  printed copy of the report to each member of the legislature, or
to the specified legislative officers or chairpersons, as the  case  may
be;  or]  MAKING  SUCH  DOCUMENT  AVAILABLE ON THE NEW YORK STATE AGENCY
DOCUMENTS WEBSITE, AS AUTHORIZED BY SUBDIVISION EIGHTEEN OF SECTION  ONE
HUNDRED  THREE  OF THE STATE TECHNOLOGY LAW, UNDER THE APPROPRIATE AGEN-
CY'S HEADING AND SENDING A PRINTED LETTER OR NOTICE TO  EACH  MEMBER  OF
THE  LEGISLATURE,  OR  TO  THE  SPECIFIED LEGISLATIVE OFFICERS OR CHAIR-
PERSONS, AS THE CASE MAY BE, INDICATING THE AVAILABILITY OF SUCH  REPORT
ON THIS WEBSITE; AND BY
  (ii)  making  such  document  available  on  its website and sending a
printed letter or notice to each member of the legislature,  or  to  the
specified  legislative  officers  or  chairpersons,  as the case may be,
indicating the availability of such report on the agency's website.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD00914-01-9

              

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  (b) Such letter or notice shall  include  the  name  of  the  specific
report,  the specific web address at which the report can be accessed or
instructions on how to access the report from the agency's homepage, and
the name of the person at the state agency to whom  the  legislator  may
direct a request to obtain a printed copy of the report, free of charge,
if so desired.
  S  2.  Section  103 of the state technology law is amended by adding a
new subdivision 18 to read as follows:
  18. TO ESTABLISH, ADMINISTER AND MAINTAIN  A  NEW  YORK  STATE  AGENCY
DOCUMENTS  WEBSITE  WHICH WILL INCLUDE POSTINGS OF ALL REPORTS ISSUED BY
STATE AGENCIES, DEPARTMENTS, PUBLIC AUTHORITIES, PUBLIC  BENEFIT  CORPO-
RATIONS  OR ENTITIES WHENEVER STATE LAW REQUIRES A STATE AGENCY TO MAKE,
ISSUE, SUBMIT, DELIVER, DISTRIBUTE OR FORWARD A REPORT TO THE  "LEGISLA-
TURE"  OR  TO  "MEMBERS  OF  THE  LEGISLATURE" OR TO "BOTH HOUSES OF THE
LEGISLATURE", OR TO ANY PARTICULAR LEGISLATIVE OFFICERS OR  CHAIRPERSONS
OF LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEES, SUBCOMMITTEES OR COMMISSIONS. IT SHALL BE THE
RESPONSIBILITY  OF  THE NEW YORK STATE AGENCY DOCUMENTS WEBSITE TO SERVE
AS THE CENTRAL REPOSITORY FOR THE POSTING AND ARCHIVING OF ALL DOCUMENTS
PROVIDED TO THE LEGISLATURE AS REQUIRED BY STATE LAW.
  S 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
have become a law.