New York Assembly Bill A02336 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2336 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 16, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. HAWLEY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to requiring public access to state budget discussions The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The public officers law is amended by adding a new section 2 103-b to read as follows: 3 § 103-b. Public access to state budget discussions. 1. Notwithstand- 4 ing the provisions of this article, or any other law to the contrary, 5 every meeting of the governor, the temporary president of the senate and 6 the speaker of the assembly arranged to discuss, negotiate, or debate, 7 in part or in its entirety, the provisions of the state budget, shall be 8 open to the general public. 9 2. The host of the meetings under this section shall provide an oppor- 10 tunity for the public to attend, listen and observe the meetings in at 11 least one physical location at which a member participates and shall be 12 open to being photographed, broadcast, webcast, or otherwise recorded 13 and/or transmitted by audio or video means. 14 3. Meetings under this section shall, to the extent practicable, be 15 broadcast to the public and maintained as records by the office of the 16 governor and each house of the legislature and streamed on the websites 17 of the governor, the senate and the assembly in real-time and posted on 18 such websites within and for a reasonable time after the meeting. 19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05524-01-5