What's happening
This bill updates the state administrative procedure act to allow and encourage electronic distribution of rulemaking information and notifications.
Why it matters
Expands public access and engagement. by allowing people to request notifications and rulemaking documents electronically, making it easier for individuals and organizations to stay informed about regulatory changes that may affect them.
Reduces administrative burdens and costs. for both agencies and the public by eliminating fees for electronic notifications and allowing agencies to fulfill requests via website links instead of physical mailings.
Increases flexibility and user control. by letting individuals tailor notification requests to specific divisions or programs within an agency, and by making electronic notification requests persistent until canceled (unlike written requests, which expire annually).
Modernizes government transparency. by encouraging digital communication, which can lead to faster dissemination of information and potentially greater public participation in the rulemaking process.
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Send Rules by Email
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18 Co-sponsors
History
- Signed chap.295
- Delivered to governor
- Returned to assembly
- Passed senateVote 60–0
- 3rd reading cal.1797
- Substituted for S5721
- Referred to rules
- Delivered to senate
- Passed assembly
- Ordered to third reading rules cal.230
- Rules report cal.230
- Reported
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- Reported referred to rules
- Referred to governmental operations
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Expand Electronic Rule Notices
Senate Floor Calendar · Sponsor Chris Jacobs
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STATE OF NEW YORK
7092
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 4, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. SIMOTAS, ZEBROWSKI, COLTON, BRAUNSTEIN, SCHIM- MINGER, ORTIZ, McDONALD, JAFFEE, JEAN-PIERRE, GALEF, LAVINE, THIELE, DICKENS, SKOUFIS, McKEVITT, D'URSO, BLAKE, GLICK -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CAHILL, COOK, DiPIETRO, HYNDMAN, NOLAN, SIMANOWITZ, SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the state administrative procedure act, in relation to the electronic distribution of rule making information
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of subdivision 6-a of section 202 of the state administrative procedure act, paragraphs (a) and (b) as amended by chapter 171 of the laws of 1994 and paragraph (c) as added by chapter 850 of the laws of 1990, are amended to read as follows:
(a) An agency shall transmit a copy of any rule making notice prepared pursuant to this article to the governor, the temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly[,] and the administrative regulations review commission [and the office of regulatory and management assistance] at the time such notice is submitted to the secretary of state for publication in the state register. Such transmittal shall include the complete rule text, regulatory impact statement, regulatory flexibility analysis, rural area flexibility analysis, or revisions thereof, and any other information submitted to the secretary of state pursuant to this article.
(b) An agency shall make a copy of the complete text of any proposed, adopted or emergency rule, regulatory impact statement, regulatory flexibility analysis, rural area flexibility analysis, or revisions thereof available to the public at the time such documents are submitted to the secretary of state for publication in the state register and shall send to any person a copy of such text upon written or electronic request.
(c) An agency shall notify every person who has submitted a written or electronic request to be notified of all proposed, revised, emergency
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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and/or adopted rules which may affect such person. [Such] The agency may allow requests for only the rules of particular divisions or programs within the agency that are of interest to such person. Written requests shall expire annually on the thirty-first day of December with renewals for the succeeding year to be accepted on or after December first. Electronic requests shall not expire, but shall continue until the person submits a request to discontinue such notification. Notices issued pursuant to such requests shall be sent [in writing] to the last address specified by the person. An agency may charge any person requesting such notice a fee consisting of the cost of preparation, handling and postage; provided, however, that no fee shall be charged for electronic notices. As an alternative to sending a document electronically, an agency may identify the document and provide a link to the section of its website containing the full text of such document.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
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