New York S 1666: Relates to the compensation for injury or damage caused by the intoxication or impairment of ability of a person under the age of twenty-one years

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S01666 Summary:

BILL NOS01666 

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SAME ASSAME AS A07796

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SPONSORHARCKHAM

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §89, Pub Off L

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Provides for accessing records under the freedom of information law including notification procedures and the release of names of natural persons and residential addresses.

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BILL NOS01666 

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01/13/2025REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

01/07/2026REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 1666

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 13, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. HARCKHAM -- 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 accessing
 records under the freedom of information law

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

 1 Section 1. Subparagraph iii of paragraph (b) of subdivision 2 and
 2 subdivision 3 of section 89 of the public officers law, subparagraph iii
 3 of paragraph (b) of subdivision 2 as amended by section 2 of part GGG of
 4 chapter 59 of the laws of 2019, subdivision 3 as amended by chapter 223
 5 of the laws of 2008 and paragraph (c) of subdivision 3 as added by chap-
 6 ter 47 of the laws of 2018, are amended to read as follows:
 7 iii. sale or release of lists of names of natural persons and residen-
 8 tial addresses if such lists would be used for solicitation or fund-
 9 raising purposes;
 10 3. (a) Each entity subject to the provisions of this article, within
 11 five business days of the receipt of a written request for a record
 12 reasonably described, shall make such record available to the person
 13 requesting it, deny such request in writing or furnish a written
 14 acknowledgement of the receipt of such request and a statement of the
 15 approximate date, which shall be reasonable under the circumstances of
 16 the request, when [such request will be granted or denied] a response
 17 will be given, including, where appropriate, a statement that access to
 18 the record will be determined in accordance with subdivision five of
 19 this section.
 20 (b) An agency shall not deny a request on the basis that the request
 21 is voluminous or that locating or reviewing the requested record or
 22 records or providing the requested copies is burdensome because the
 23 agency lacks sufficient staffing or on any other basis if the agency may
 24 engage an outside professional service to provide copying, programming

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD03889-01-5

 S. 1666 2

 1 or other services required to provide the copy, the costs of which the
 2 agency may recover pursuant to paragraph (c) of subdivision one of
 3 section eighty-seven of this article.
 4 (c) An agency may require a person requesting lists of names and
 5 addresses to provide a written certification that such person will not
 6 use such lists of names of natural persons and residential addresses for
 7 solicitation or fund-raising purposes and will not sell, give or other-
 8 wise make available such lists of names and addresses to any other
 9 person for the purpose of allowing that person to use such lists of
 10 names and addresses for solicitation or fund-raising purposes.
 11 (d) If [an agency determines to grant a request in whole or in part,
 12 and if] circumstances prevent an agency from notifying the person
 13 requesting the record or records of the agency's determination regarding
 14 the rights of access and disclosure to the person requesting the record
 15 or records within twenty business days from the date of the acknowledge-
 16 ment of the receipt of the request, the agency shall state, in writing,
 17 both the reason for the inability to [grant the request] do so within
 18 twenty business days and a date certain within a reasonable period,
 19 depending on the circumstances, when [the request will b