New York Assembly Bill A06146 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6146--A 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY April 3, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BUTTENSCHON, SILLITTI, SLATER, BERGER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations -- recommitted to the Committee on Governmental Operations in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to the disclosure of public employee disciplinary records The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 87 of the public officers law is amended by adding 2 a new subdivision 4-c to read as follows: 3 4-c. An agency responding to a request for public employee discipli- 4 nary records shall provide written notice of such request for records to 5 any public employee whose personal information is the subject of such 6 request and released pursuant thereto, within five business days of the 7 release of such records. 8 § 2. Section 86 of the public officers law is amended by adding two 9 new subdivisions 12 and 13 to read as follows: 10 12. "Public employee" means any officer or employee of an agency, the 11 state legislature, or the judiciary. 12 13. "Public employee disciplinary records" means any record created in 13 furtherance of an employment-related disciplinary proceeding regarding a 14 public employee, including, but not limited to: 15 (a) the complaints, allegations, and charges against such public 16 employee; 17 (b) the name of such public employee complained of or charged; 18 (c) the transcript of any disciplinary trial or hearing, including any 19 exhibits introduced at such trial or hearing; 20 (d) the disposition of any disciplinary proceeding; and 21 (e) the final written opinion or memorandum supporting the disposition 22 and discipline imposed including the disciplinary body's complete factu- 23 al findings and its analysis of the conduct and appropriate discipline 24 of such public employee. 25 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD10064-02-4