New York S 1074: Requires public disclosure of certain state agency materials, and authorizes the office of information technology services to publish a technical standards manual for the publishing of records

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S01074 Summary:

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Requires public disclosure of certain state agency materials, and authorizes the office for technology to publish a technical standards manual for the publishing of records on the internet by state agencies.

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01/08/2025REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

01/07/2026REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 1074

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. SERRANO -- 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 requiring public
 disclosure of certain state agency materials; and to amend the state
 technology law, in relation to authorizing the office of information
 technology services to publish a technical standards manual for the
 publishing of records on the internet by state agencies

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

 1 Section 1. This act shall be known as and may be cited as the "Open
 2 New York Act".
 3 § 2. Section 86 of the public officers law is amended by adding four
 4 new subdivisions 12, 13, 14 and 15 to read as follows:
 5 12. "Consensus" means general agreement, but not necessarily unanimi-
 6 ty, and includes a process for attempting to resolve objections by
 7 interested parties, as long as all comments have been fairly considered.
 8 13. "Technical standard" means (a) the common and repeated use of
 9 rules, conditions, guidelines or characteristics for products or related
 10 processes and production methods, and related management systems prac-
 11 tices and (b) the definition of terms; classification of components,
 12 delineation of procedures; specifications of dimensions, materials,
 13 performance, designs or operations; measurement of quality and quantity
 14 in describing materials, processes, products, systems, services or prac-
 15 tices; test methods and sampling procedures; or descriptions of fit and
 16 measurements of size or strength.
 17 14. "Voluntary consensus standards" means standards developed or
 18 adopted by voluntary consensus standards bodies, both domestic and
 19 international. These standards include provisions requiring that owners
 20 of relevant intellectual property agree to make such intellectual prop-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD01659-01-5

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 1 erty available on a non-discriminatory, royalty-free or reasonable
 2 royalty basis to all interested parties.
 3 15. "Voluntary consensus standards bodies" means domestic or interna-
 4 tional organizations which plan, develop, establish, or coordinate
 5 voluntary consensus standards using agreed-upon procedures.
 6 § 3. The opening paragraph of paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 of
 7 section 87 of the public officers law, as added by chapter 223 of the
 8 laws of 2008, is amended and a new subdivision 2-a is added to read as
 9 follows:
 10 In determining the actual cost of reproducing a physical copy of a
 11 record, an agency may include only:
 12 2-a. All records available pursuant to the provisions of this section
 13 shall be available in electronic form pursuant to the provisions of this
 14 section and in accordance with the provisions of section eighty-seven-a
 15 of this article.
 16 § 4. The public officers law is amended by adding a new section 87-a
 17 to read as follows:
 18 § 87-a. State internet records policy. 1. (a) The committee on open
 19 government shall promulgate rules establishing an internet record policy
 20 for the state of New York no later than January third, two thousand
 21 twenty-six, for the purposes of making agency records available on the
 22 inte