STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8021 IN SENATE January 5, 2024 ___________ Introduced by Sen. FERNANDEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules AN ACT to amend the state technology law, in relation to state agency websites required to offer a mobile friendly form The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 210 of the state technology law, as added by a 2 chapter of the laws of 2023 amending the state technology law relating 3 to state agency websites, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 4 5410 and A. 6972, is renumbered section 103-c and amended to read as 5 follows: 6 § 103-c. State agency websites; mobile friendly websites. All state 7 agency websites, as defined in section two hundred two of this [article] 8 chapter, shall offer a mobile friendly form and shall be made available 9 for all mobile devices that support such technology, provided that such 10 requirement shall only apply to websites created or modified with chang- 11 es to form or function after the effective date of this section and 12 prior to January first, two thousand twenty-seven, and to all state 13 agency websites thereafter. For the purposes of this section, "mobile 14 friendly" shall mean, with respect to a website, that such website is 15 configured in such a way that such website may be navigated, viewed and 16 accessed on a smartphone, tablet computer, or similar mobile device. For 17 the purposes of this section, "changes to form or function" shall mean 18 modifications to the visual presentation, informational organization, 19 website infrastructure, or user utility of the website, including but 20 not limited to: 21 1. redesigns of site layout, color schemes, graphics, branding 22 elements, or other aesthetic components; or 23 2. integration of dynamic interfaces. 24 § 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same 25 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2023 amending the state technology 26 law relating to state agency websites, as proposed in legislative bills 27 numbers S. 5410 and A. 6972, takes effect. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD09848-02-4