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- Signed chap.383
- Delivered to governor
- Returned to senate
- Passed assembly
- Ordered to third reading rules cal.613
- Substituted for A937
- Referred to local governments
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 60–1
- Ordered to third reading cal.1298
- Committee discharged and committed to rules
- Referred to local government
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Requires the secretary of state to publish local laws on the department of state website and as a supplement to the session laws; repealer
Assembly Floor Calendar · Sponsor Brian Kavanagh
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Sponsor's memo
BILL NUMBER:S2636
Title of bill
An act to amend the municipal home rule law, in relation to enhancing the current system of local law publication; and to repeal subdivision 5 of section 27 of such law relating to local law publication
Purpose
This bill would require the Secretary of State to publish local laws and codes enacted by counties on the Department of State's official website free-of-charge.
Summary of provisions
Section 1 of the bill would repeal the current Subdivision 5 of Section 27 of the Municipal Home Rule Law and add a new Subdivision 5 to Section 27. The current Subdivision 5 requires the Secretary of State to publish all local laws enacted by all counties in the state in a bound volume. The new Subdivision 5 would add a requirement that these local laws also be published on the Department of State website as individual local laws and in the form of a complete codification of all such local laws. Counties are already required under Subdivision 1 of the existing 27 to provide their local laws to the Secretary of State within 20 days of enactment. The new Subdivision 5 enables the Secretary of State to specify the format and manner counties shall provide the laws, to facilitate the new publication requirement.
Section 2 of the bill specifies the effective date.
Justification
Residents, businesses, visitors, researchers, students, advocates, and many others have an interest in knowing what laws might apply in different parts of the State. In part for this reason, counties are required by current law to submit their laws to the Secretary of State and the Secretary of State is, in turn, required to publish the local laws annually, in a bound volume. This legislation would adapt these publication requirements to increase access to these laws and to take advantage of the efficiency of the internet as a means of distributing information.
Legislative history
2011-12: S.1092/A.3692 - Referred to Local Government 2009-10: S.4289A/A.441A - Referred to Local Government 2008-09: S.4249/A.11403 - Referred to Local Government.
Fiscal impact on the state
Minimal.
Effective date
This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after it shall have become law.
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