New York Assembly Bill A02573 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2573 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 17, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD, ROZIC, OTIS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations AN ACT to amend the New York state printing and public documents law, in relation to requiring state agencies to make available all public documents in a digital format on their website The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 12 of the New York state printing and public docu- 2 ments law is amended by adding a new subdivision 5 to read as follows: 3 5. Each state agency shall make all public documents, as defined in 4 this article, available in a digital format on its website in a manner 5 that allows such documents to be printed. Under no circumstances shall 6 any document that is required by law to remain confidential be deemed a 7 public document. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 9 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05142-01-5