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A10276 Summary:

BILL NOA10276A
 
SAME ASSAME AS S01647-A
 
SPONSORRules (Bores)
 
COSPNSR
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd §103-a, Pub Off L
 
Provides for a quorum of one quarter of the members and the presiding officer of a community board physically be present at a location where the public can attend for such board to conduct videoconferencing.
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A10276 Actions:

BILL NOA10276A
 
05/16/2024referred to governmental operations
05/16/2024amend (t) and recommit to governmental operations
05/16/2024print number 10276a
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A10276 Memo:

NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY
MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION
submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
 
BILL NUMBER: A10276A
 
SPONSOR: Rules (Bores)
  TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the public officers law, in relation to lowering quorum requirements for meetings of community boards held by videoconferencing   PURPOSE: To ease requirements for in-person attendance of community board members   SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS: Section one: Reduces the number of community board members required to physically attend a meeting using videoconferencing from a quorum to one quarter of the members and the relevant presiding officer. Section two: Establishes definition of "advisory body" for this section. Section three: Establishes the effective date.   JUSTIFICATION: The FY23 Enacted budget created flexibility for public bodies to use videoconferencing while complying with the Open Meetings Law. One of the requirements was that a quorum of the public body must meet in person. For community boards in New York City, which can have up to 50 members and are volunteer positions, gathering a quorum presents a significant burden. This bill will ease those requirements only for community boards by requiring that a quarter of the membership and the relevant presiding officer be physically present in order to allow the use of videoconfer- encing for other members.   LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: S.9221 of 2021-2022 (Hoylman): Died in Investigations and Government Operations   FISCAL IMPLICATIONS: None.   EFFECTIVE DATE: Immediately.
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A10276 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                        10276--A
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                      May 16, 2024
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Bores) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations  --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee
 
        AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to lowering  quorum
          requirements  for meetings of community boards held by videoconferenc-
          ing

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1. The opening paragraph of subdivision 2 of section 103-a of
     2  the public officers law, as added by section 2 of part WW of chapter  56
     3  of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
     4    A public body may, in its discretion, use videoconferencing to conduct
     5  its  meetings pursuant to the requirements of this article provided that
     6  a minimum number of members are present to  fulfill  the  public  body's
     7  quorum  requirement in the same physical location or locations where the
     8  public can attend, except that in the case  of  an  advisory  body,  one
     9  quarter  of the members and the relevant presiding officer must be pres-
    10  ent in such physical location or locations, and the  following  criteria
    11  are met:
    12    §  2.  Section 103-a of the public officers law is amended by adding a
    13  new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
    14    6. For the purposes of this  section,  an  "advisory  body"  shall  be
    15  defined  as  an  entity  that  is involved in an advisory capacity only;
    16  including but not limited to engagement in policy  development,  program
    17  planning, and program evaluation, and that may or may not vote to deter-
    18  mine  a  final policy or programmatic outcome, including but not limited
    19  to a community board in a city with a population of one million or more.
    20    § 3.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however,  that
    21  the  amendments  to  section  103-a  of  the public officers law made by
    22  sections one and two of this act shall not affect  the  repeal  of  such
    23  section and shall be deemed repealed therewith.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05005-04-4
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