New York S 452: Relates to setting the rate of credit per kilowatt hour for farm waste generating equipment customer-generators, which includes the anaerobic digestion of agricultural waste

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S00452 Summary:

BILL NOS00452 

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SAME ASSAME AS A02321

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SPONSORHOYLMAN-SIGAL

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COSPNSRBRISPORT, CLEARE, COMRIE, FAHY, FERNANDEZ, GOUNARDES, JACKSON, KRUEGER, RYAN C, SKOUFIS

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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 NOS00452 

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01/08/2025REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 452

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
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 Introduced by Sen. HOYLMAN-SIGAL -- read twice and ordered printed, and
 when printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and
 Government Operations

 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;

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD01981-01-5

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 1 (e) include data prescribed and defined by the committee on open
 2 government, but at the minimum including:
 3 (i) the name of the requestor;
 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 status of any appeals, including whether the appeal was:
 23 (A) not filed;
 24 (B) filed and pending;
 25 (C) filed and granted in whole;
 26 (D) filed and granted in part and denied in part; or
 27 (E) f