New York A 1288: Relates to eliminating asset limits in calculating the amount of benefits for any household under any public assistance program

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A01288 Summary:

BILL NOA01288 

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SAME ASSAME AS S00387

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SPONSORVanel

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§84, 86, 87 & 89, Pub Off L

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Requires governmental and certain nongovernmental entities to publish public records proactively on the internet that are of public interest.

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BILL NOA01288 

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01/09/2025referred to governmental operations

01/07/2026referred to governmental operations

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 1288

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 9, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. VANEL -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Governmental Operations

 AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to making certain
 public records available on the internet

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

 1 Section 1. Section 84 of the public officers law, as added by chapter
 2 933 of the laws of 1977, is amended to read as follows:
 3 § 84. Legislative declaration. The legislature hereby finds that a
 4 free society is maintained when government is responsive and responsible
 5 to the public, and when the public is aware of governmental actions. The
 6 more open a government is with its citizenry, the greater the under-
 7 standing and participation of the public in government. People have a
 8 right to know how government operates and spends money.
 9 As state and local government services increase and public problems
 10 become more sophisticated and complex and therefore harder to solve, and
 11 with the resultant increase in revenues and expenditures, it is incum-
 12 bent upon the state and its localities to extend public accountability
 13 wherever and whenever feasible.
 14 The people's right to know the process of governmental decision-making
 15 and to review the documents and statistics leading to determinations is
 16 basic to our society. Access to such information should not be thwarted
 17 by shrouding it with the cloak of secrecy or confidentiality.
 18 Since the Freedom of Information Law was first adopted, advances in
 19 technology have enhanced the ability to gain access to and widely
 20 disseminate public information. Accordingly, the legislature finds that
 21 government agencies, when agencies have the ability to do so, should
 22 publish public records proactively on the internet that are of public
 23 interest and available under this article.
 24 The legislature therefore declares that government is the public's
 25 business and that the public, individually and collectively and repres-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD01427-01-5

 A. 1288 2

 1 ented by a free press, should have access to the records of government
 2 in accordance with the provisions of this article.
 3 § 2. Subdivisions 3 and 4 of section 86 of the public officers law, as
 4 added by chapter 933 of the laws of 1977, are amended and two new subdi-
 5 visions 12 and 13 are added to read as follows:
 6 3. "Agency" excludes the judiciary and state legislature, and means
 7 any state or municipal department, school district, board, bureau, divi-
 8 sion, commission, committee, public authority, public corporation, coun-
 9 cil, office or other governmental entity performing a governmental or
 10 proprietary function for the state or any one or more municipalities
 11 thereof, [except the judiciary or the state legislature] or any other
 12 body, by whatever name, acting on behalf of government which, considered
 13 in its totality, is functionally equivalent to an agency as defined in
 14 this subdivision because it substantially possesses any of the following
 15 features and functions:
 16 (a) The body performs a governmental or proprietary function for the
 17 state or municipality;
 18 (b) The body's members have authority to make decisions or recommenda-
 19 tions on policy and administration affecting the conduct of the business
 20 of the people in the governmental sector;
 21 (c) The body was creat