New York S 9739: Extends certain provisions relating to the membership composition of the metropolitan transportation authority board

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S09739 Summary:

BILL NOS09739A

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SAME ASSAME AS A02321-A

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SPONSORKAVANAGH

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Ren §90 to be §90-a, add §90, Pub Off L

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Requires all agencies to submit to the committee on open government a log of all freedom of information law requests for each year in which they received or have pending a request for records; requires the committee on open government to publish, on one webpage, all freedom of information law request logs it receives.

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BILL NOS09739A

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04/02/2026REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

06/01/2026AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

06/01/2026PRINT NUMBER 9739A

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 9739--A

 IN SENATE

 April 2, 2026
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. KAVANAGH -- 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 requiring agen-
 cies to report information about FOIL inquiries to the committee on
 open government

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

 1 Section 1. Section 90 of the public officers law is renumbered section
 2 90-a and a new section 90 is added to read as follows:
 3 § 90. FOIL request reporting. 1. All agencies that perform govern-
 4 mental or proprietary functions for the state subject to this article
 5 shall, for each year in which they received or have pending a request
 6 for records under this article, submit to the committee on open govern-
 7 ment their log of all such freedom of information law requests. For the
 8 purposes of this section, pending shall mean requests that were open at
 9 any point during the twelve-month period, including those first submit-
 10 ted in prior years. The freedom of information law request logs shall:
 11 (a) cover a twelve-month range of dates as prescribed by the committee
 12 on open government and shall include data regarding all requests
 13 received or pending during that range of dates;
 14 (b) be submitted on a schedule prescribed by the committee on open
 15 government;
 16 (c) be in a machine-readable, tabular spreadsheet format prescribed by
 17 the committee on open government, including but not limited to the order
 18 of the data fields included;
 19 (d) be submitted in a method as prescribed by the committee on open
 20 government, such as by electronic mail, web form, web portal, or other
 21 method as prescribed by the committee;
 22 (e) include data prescribed and defined by the committee on open
 23 government, but at the minimum including:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD01981-02-6

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 1 (i) the name of the requestor, or an indication that the requestor is
 2 a "private individual" if the request did not include an affiliation
 3 and/or employer on whose behalf the request was made;
 4 (ii) the affiliation and/or the employer of the requestor, if applica-
 5 ble;
 6 (iii) the subject or subjects of the request;
 7 (iv) the date of receipt of the request;
 8 (v) the date of acknowledgment by the agency of the request;
 9 (vi) the date of the expected response time as provided in the
 10 acknowledgment;
 11 (vii) the number of extensions of time to respond to date;
 12 (viii) the date of the final response or of the closure of the
 13 request, if applicable;
 14 (ix) whether the request was granted in whole; granted in part and
 15 denied in part; or denied;
 16 (x) if the request was denied in whole or in part, a list of
 17 exemptions cited in the final response, if applicable;
 18 (xi) if the request was denied in whole or in part, whether the agency
 19 determined there were no responsive records;
 20 (xii) the date an appeal of the final response was filed, or whether
 21 no appeal was filed;
 22 (xiii) the st